VOYAGE OUTWARD. 41 



ness of fracture, like that of the rock, clink basalt, on which 

 stands the castle of Edinburgh. 



The island of Disko, called by the natives Duskee, is 

 visible from Reef KoU. At a distance of twenty miles 

 it seemed not far remote. It is table land, the interior 



the islands seen lay N.E. of the sunken rock: the snow fell in 

 increased quantity, and of singular shape, thin, pellucid, icy ; ge- 

 nerally from a centre, six radii extend themselves ; the adjoined 1999 

 is an accurate sketch. (^^ 



April 26: thei-. 18°, 20^ 23°: wind N.N. E., Ught breeze: cir- 

 rostratus in loose masses : many species of larus : a shoal of baloena 

 physalus passed in view ; some of very great length : aftei-noon re- 

 markably fine : land at Baal's River seen : veiy lofty peaked sum- 

 mits covered with snow : lat. by observation 64° 14' N. See Plate I. 

 Fig. 2. 



April 27: ther. 23°, 30°, 28°: wind N.E., fresh breeze: the wind 

 unfavourable for a passage : the high snowy peaks of Greenland in 

 view about forty miles distant : beautiful undulate and comoid cirrus 

 in the zenith : cirrostratus lower, and cumulus in the horizon scat- 

 tered amongst a mUky stratus : cumulostratus in N. W. indicates 

 wind : cirrostratus lying far below the lofty summits of the moun- 

 tains : water lying on the ship's deck and no appearance of freezing : 

 colymbus troile seen : lat. ob. 64° 23' N. 



April 28 : ther. 27°, 30°, 27°, wind N. by W. hght breeze : va- 

 rious modifications of cirrostratus, heavy, still, and dark : land dis- 

 tant ten leagues, and some islands with low conic tops. The setting 



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