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few days within sight of lands stretching still higher 

 than those recently surveyed, and connecting them with 

 the others which he had first discovered. There ap- 

 peared two large territories, seemingly insular, to 

 which were given the names of Canning and Traill ; and 

 between them was a most spacious inlet, named Sir 

 Humphrey Davy. He landed on Traill Island, and with 

 incredible toil clambered to the top of a hill, where he 

 hoped to have found a small plain containing a few 

 specimens of Arctic vegetation ; but this summit was 

 steeper than the most narrowly-pitched roof of a house ; 

 and, had not the opposite side been a little smoother, 

 he would have found much difficulty in sliding down. 

 Beyond this island, and separated from it by a consider- 

 able inlet, named after Lord Mountnorris, was another 

 coast, the pointed extremity of which received the name 

 of Parry. This promontory being at no great distance 

 from Cape Freycinct, which had been seen in the first 

 survey, there was thus completed the observation of a 

 range of four hundred miles of coast, formerly known 

 only by the most imperfect notices, and which might, 

 therefore, be strictly considered as a new discovery. 



Scoresby afterwards approached more closely to Can- 

 ning Island, and penetrated a sound between it and the 

 main, connected apparently with Hurry's Inlet. He 

 would have been happy to examine more of the Green- 

 land coast, having on one occasion had a fair prospect 

 of being able to run southward to Cape Farewell ; but 

 the ship was not his own, and his duty to his employers 

 compelled him to turn in another direction. He had 

 hitherto met with much disappointment ; and, the sea- 

 son being far advanced, he was apprehensive of being 

 obliged to return with a deficient cargo. But, on the 

 15th of August, numerous whales appeared round the 

 ship ; of these five were struck, and three taken, which 



