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eluded on the 19th of July. From hence Captain 

 Sabine, being desirous of preserving unbroken the 

 continuity of the account of the pendulum experi- 

 ments, proposed that no time should be lost in pro- 

 ceeding to a proper station on the E. coast of Green- 

 land ; which the Griper successfully accomplished in 

 a higher latitude than is recorded to have been pre- 

 viously traversed, namely, between the 74th and 

 75th degrees/in the second week of August. Being 

 stopped, however, soon after he had passed the 75th 

 parallel, and the season advancing, he returned along 

 the coast to a harbour of safe anchorage in latitude 

 74° 30', which he had noticed in passing to the 

 northward. Here the Griper was anchored, and 

 became the station for conducting the pendulum 

 experiments. 



This harbour is formed by the channel which 

 separates the main land from an island, on which the 

 experiments were made, and which is secured from 

 the access of heavy ice from the ocean by a smaller 

 island in the mid- channel of the entrance. The 

 group, of which these islands form a part, consists 

 of two nearly of the same size, and two others much 

 smaller, being rather rocks than islands : they ex- 

 tend from the latitude of 74° 30' to that of 74 J 42', 

 and were distinguished by the officers and seamen 

 of the Griper by the appellation of the Pendulum 

 Islands. It had been the intention of Captain 

 Sabine to make Reikiavik, in Iceland, the concluding 

 station of the Pendulum experiments in the high 



