VOYAGE OUTWARD. 45 



taken. Its height is sixty feet. There are parts however 

 where the stratification is much more regular. 



These remarks chiefly regard the south side about For- 

 tune Bay (Plate III.), which seems to be that part of this 

 island which has been least affected by that awful convulsion 

 which at some remote period denudated and destroyed this 

 portion of the globe. Probably the ruin that came upon 

 these countries moved, in its terrible progress, from the 

 north-westward ; and, having forced a passage through the 

 Waygat Strait, swept round through the south-east bay, and 

 so spared Disko. In support of such conjecture, it may be 

 advanced, that Hare Island, lying nearly north of Disko, at 

 the entrance to Waygat Sound, is low and flat, as it were 

 the base of a mountain Avhose summit had been torn away. 

 The contiguous point of Disko shelves into the sea, as if 

 having suffered from the same cause : Avhilst that side of 

 Disko that overlooks the Waygat consists of lofty peaks, 

 behind which there lie deep valleys, where the torrent rioted, 

 having failed to carry away the more elevated parts. More- 

 young. About 8 p. m. passed the western islands, which lie low and 

 very flat, much inhabited by the natives : Disko in sight, appearing 

 high above the horizon : saw flocks of colymbus grylle, also a raven : 

 immense numbers of procellaria glacialis making rapid flight to the 

 jiorth- westward. 



May 7 : tlier. 25°, 30°, 25° : wind S.E., strong breeze. 



