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Joseph Sound of the Germania and Hansa expedition, and 

 with it defining the northern limits of Greenland. This 

 inlet was called the Southern Fiord. The northern point 

 of this bay was named Cape Lupton ; its southern point 

 is yet without a name. From Cape Lupton the land 

 trends to the northeast, and forms the eastern shore of a 

 new channel, opening out of the sound above mentioned, 

 to which Captain Hall, as has already been stated, gave 

 the name of Robeson Straits. The western shore of these 

 straits, north of Grinuell Land, is also as yet nameless. 

 Northeast of Cape Lupton, in latitude 81 37', is a deep 

 inlet, which Captain Hall called Newman Bay, naming its 

 northern point Cape Brevoort, and its southern bluff Sum- 

 ner Headland. The trend of the land continues to Re- 

 pulse Harbor, in latitude 82 3' north, the highest north-* 

 ern position reached by land. From an elevation of 1700 

 feet at Repulse Harbor, on the east coast of Robeson 

 Straits, the land continues northeast to the end of these 

 straits, and thence east and southeast till lost in the dis- 

 tance, its vanishing-point bearing south of east from the 

 place of observation. No other land was visible to the 

 northeast, but land was seen on the west coast, extending 

 north as far as the eye could reach, and terminating in a 

 headland nearly 84 north. Mr. Meyer also states that 

 directly to the north he observed on a bright day, from the 

 elevation mentioned, a line of light, apparently circular in 

 form, which was thought by some observers to be land, 

 but which he supposed to indicate open water. Besides 

 accurately ascertaining the condition and extent of what 

 was before supposed to be an open Polar Sea, discovering 

 the Southern Fiord to the southeast arid Robeson Straits 

 to the north, with another wide expanse of water beyond 

 it, and extending, by examination and survey, the coast- 

 line on the east up to latitude 82 3' north, and by obser- 

 vation somewhat farther prolonging the west coast to the 



northward, and passing with the Polaris under steam the 

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