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ourselves no rest, however, but sailed until miclniglit in 

 a south-westerly direction, four miles further, where in 

 a small safe harbour we landed. On the shore were 

 many signs that here had passed or lived some human 

 beings, and (to judge from the bones of the seals) not very 

 long ago some Esquimaux. Small stones were laid on 

 the top of each other in the shape of a quadrangle : 

 fragments of earthenware and seals' bones lay strewn 

 around. In this bight, too, the scenery was indescribably 

 grand. To the left it was bounded by a hilly chain 

 clothed in green moss. To the right rose a mighty wall 

 1200 feet high. A rocky pyramid towered in the air, 

 and broad cataracts shot over the slopes, the waters 

 collecting at the bottom, and the overflow being borne 

 to the sea. The background was picturesquely sur- 

 rounded by mountains, the waters of whose glaciers fell 

 over a mountain terrace in a mighty torrent thunder- 

 ing to the sea. I thought of the ' Traunfall ' in Upper 

 Austria. No words are equal to the description of this 

 majestic scenery ; it wants a vivid water-colour drawing 

 to convey that impression to the reader which this picture 

 landscape made upon me. Pity that the journey to 

 this region is so uninviting ! If such were not the 

 case, an artist might not be indisposed to undertake it, 

 in order to bring home to the world full and glorious 

 sketches and views of an unknown land abounding in 

 nature's beauty. 



At eleven in the morning, with a fresh north wind, we 

 sailed on. At noon we passed the point of Christian 

 IV. Island, and from thence rowed between the hip-h 

 island lying north of Cape Farewell, to the important 

 Island of Sedlevik with its mauy far-stretching arms, 



