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inlet, the entrance of which was bounded by Cape Tobin 

 on the north, and Cape Brewster on the south, the nav- 

 igator gave the name of his father, though posterity will 

 probably be apt to associate with himself the name of 

 " Scoresby's Sound. 7 ' 



These coasts, especially that of Jameson's Land, were 

 found richer in plants and verdure than any others seen 

 on this occasion within the Arctic circle, and almost 

 meriting the distinction of Greenland. The grass rose 

 in one place to a foot in height, and there were mead- 

 ows of several acres, which appeared nearly equal to 

 any in England. But nowhere could a human being be 

 discovered, though there were everywhere traces of 

 recent and even frequent inhabitation. At the foot of 

 certain cliffs, named after Dr. Neill, were several ham- 

 lets of some extent. The huts appear to have been 

 winter abodes, not constructed of snow-slabs, like the 

 cells of the Esquimaux of Hudson's Bay, but resembling 

 those of the Greenlanders, dug deep in the ground, 

 entered by a long winding passage or funnel, and roofed 

 with a wooden frame overlaid with moss and earth. 

 The mansion had thus the appearance of a slight hillock. 

 Near the hamlets were excavations in the earth, serving 

 as graves, where implements of hunting, found along 

 with the bones of the deceased, proved the prevalence 

 here of the general belief of savage nations, that the 

 employments of man in the future life will exactly 

 resemble those of the present. 



On emerging from this large sound, and proceeding 

 southward, Scoresby discovered another continuous 

 range of coast. 



Disappointed as to any appearance of whales on this 

 coast, he again steered to the northward, where ice- 

 bergs surrounded him, amounting at one place to the 

 number of five hundred. This course brought him in a 



