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very providential relief in the drifted pines and other 

 timbers that are occasionally driven on their shores ; but 

 whence this wood comes, a thorough investigation of the 

 Greenland currents only can determine. 



the longest lamina eleven feet three inches : whilst the men were 

 engaged flinching this huge body, a blind shark came, and in its 

 over anxious desire to share of the spoU, gave one of the boys an 

 opportunity of wounding him several times : groups of the oniscus 

 ceti, whale louse, attached to the epidermis of this whale, pai-ticularly 

 about the fins and anus. 



June 3 : ther. 32°, 37°, 30° : wind nearly calm. 

 June 4 : ther. 32° throughout: wind N.E., hght air. 

 June 5 : ther. 27°, 38°, 32° : wind E., Ught breeze. 

 June 6: ther. 38°, 56°, 38°: wind E.N. E., light air. 

 June 7 : ther. 80°, 36°, 33° : wind nearly calm. 

 Jime 8: ther. 31°, 38°, 84°: wind N.E., strong breeze. 

 The weather during the above days had scarcely any variety, and 

 could afford little information or amusement to the reader ; the at- 

 mosphere being generally loaded with heavy vapour, and sometimes 

 acicular snow : sea almost clear of ice : ship to the westward of 

 Disko about thirty miles distant. 



.Tune 9: ther. 42°, 53°, 4.S°: wind S.E., fresh breeze: atmo- 

 sphere clear and dry: Whale Islands to the S.E. in sight: light 

 feathery cirrus, with faintly marked cirrocumulus, and a dash of 

 cirrostratus brown mist, flittering far beneath : an hugely headed 

 whale sixty feet long was harpooned amongst some bay ice, that is, 



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