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the whole of southern Greenland, or rather open into some 

 vast internal sea, whence the ice is annually carried west- 

 ward, so as to obstruct the entrance to those parts from the 

 side of Hudson's Bay. 



Staten Hook, also the most southern extremity of Green- 

 land, and Cape Farewell, the south-western extremity, have 

 been both determined to be islands, between which there 

 lies an immense bay, crowded with islands. The bottom 

 of this, never having been yet explored, may be supposed 

 to have many inlets branching into Frobisher's Straits. 



Let us turn our attention to Baal's River, which is rather 

 a gulf penetrating Greenland to the N.E. The extremity 

 of this water has not been as yet laid down. It is supposed 

 to extend to Disko by some inlet leading into South East 

 Bay. In its length it is impossible to deny but it may have 

 communication with Skaga Fiord, and the inland waters in 

 Frobisher's Straits. 



Whether South Bay is connected with Baal's River is not 

 easy to assert, as there is no datum for such an assertion. 



Makkely Onit in South East Bay has been always al- 

 lowed as running into a water, which, if free from ice, would 

 permit a passage into the northern Atlantic. 



North of Makkely Onit are numerous passages opening 

 into internal seas in the northern parts of Greenland, some 

 of which have been penetrated by the boats of the whale 

 hunters, the men of which, on their return, invariably re- 



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