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they were all covered with snow, excepting one of 

 them, about four miles long, of a blackish colour, 

 but the ice prevented them from approaching it. 

 These islands were eighteen or t\\ enty miles from 

 the land. The water between them was of a brown 

 colour, but they found neither fish, birds, nor seals. 

 The mountains on the shore were visible at sea at 

 the distance of nearly sixty miles. The most nor- 

 thern cape they saw, in 65° 30', received the name 

 of the Cape of King Frederick, They coasted along 

 the land, running to the S. W., but they could not 

 in any place penetrate the ice, which however was 

 neither continuous nor firm enough to support 

 them when they wished to walk upon it towards 

 the land. On the 10th of June they were in lati- 

 tude 6S° 10', at twenty-five miles from the land. 

 On the 12th, in lat. 62^ they saw a mountain split 

 in two at fifteen or sixteen miles to the westward 

 of them. There vv- ere several small bays on the coast, 

 which here seemed to be the best country they had 

 yet seen in Greenland, but the ice prevented them 

 from approaching it nearer than twenty miles. They 

 doubled Cape Farewell and sailed up along the 

 western coast of Greenland, and remained on that 

 coast till the l6th of July. On the 18th of July 

 they repassed Cape Farewell, and on the 22d of 

 July, in 61® 30' latitude, they again discerned the 

 eastern coast of Greenland seventy miles to the 

 N. W., and in two places they fancied they saw 

 buildings with turrets on them. On the 23d of 



