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received the name of Liverpool, while to the mountains 

 was given that of Roscoe. The range of shore termi- 

 nated at Cape Hodgson ; beyond which, however, steer- 

 ing south-west, they descried three other promontories ; 

 to these were successively given the appellation of Cape 

 Lister, Cape Swainson, and Cape Tobin. 



Here Scoresby landed ; when he found the beach 

 much lower than that further to the north, and consist- 

 ing, in a great measure, of loose, stony hills. After 

 some examination, he came, near Cape Swainson, to an 

 enclosure similar to those which the Esquimaux con- 

 struct for their summer huts, and within which were 

 hollow structures, like bee-hives, such as they use for 

 stores. 



Resuming his course at sea, and still holding south- 

 westward, he now discovered a spacious inlet, to which, 

 in looking upwards, no boundary could be seen. While 

 penetrating this opening, he observed another sound 

 branching to the northward behind the Liverpool coast, 

 and supposed to form it into an island. The opposite 

 shore of this entrance was named Jameson's Land, from 

 the eminent professor of natural history in Edinburgh. 

 Beyond Cape Hooker, the southern point of the coast 

 just described, another large inlet stretched towards the 

 north, to which was given the name of Basil Hall. It 

 had every appearance of converting Jameson's Land 

 into an island ; and the coast to the westward of it 

 received the name of Milne's Land. Between Cape 

 Leslie, constituting the northern point of that coast, 

 and Cape Stevenson, on the opposite shore, the original 

 opening continued to stretch into the interior, without 

 any appearance of a termination. There appeared a 

 strong presumption that, instead of the continuous masa 

 of land which our maps represent, Greenland composes 

 only an immense archipelago of islands To this great 



