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Dr. Sontag.

--An English paper gives the following particulars of the death of this distinguished man of science, who lost his life in the late Arctic expedition under Dr. Hayes:

August Sontag, the astronomer, a gentleman of high scientific attainments, who accompanied Dr. Kane on his last expedition, and was at one time connected with the United States Coast Survey, was frozen to death in his sledge while out exploring, accompanied by a single Esquimaux. The body was recovered and interred at Fort Folke, near Cape Alexander.

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