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that the rest of the Icelanders, which escaped the extermination of 
their countrymen, united themselves with the Greenlanders. 
It remains now to point out the situation and the extent of the 
settlements which existed on the eastern coast, on the authority 
and nomenclature of the Icelandic historian, Ivar Bardsen, com- 
pared with the names given by the Esquimaux. From. this it will 
appear, that the old settlements by no means extended to so high a 
degree of latitude, as it is generally believed. The difference in 
some names used by Ivar Bardsen and Biorn Johnsen arises: pro- 
bably from the different periods in which they lived, and from the 
change of the places. of settlements. 
According: to oral communications, received by such of the na- 
tives as live in 65 or 66 degrees of latitude, the soil is so barren 
and dry, that, a few spots excepted, it does not afford so much 
straw as they want to put in their boots. This is also confirmed by 
Captain Scoresby in his Journal, vide p. 177. 
The following are the names of the old Norwegian settlements 
compared with the Greenlandic places on the eastern and southern 
coasts, where ruins of Icelandic buildings and cultivation of the 
soil are still to be found.—See the Map. 
BIORN JOHNSEN’S AND 
IVAR BARDSEK’S NAMES USED BY THE 
NORWEGIAN NAMES. GREENLANDERS. 
i. Ollum-lengri. No settlement. 
2. Bergefiord. Puisortok. 
3. Skagafiord, Heriolffiord. Kangerluksoeitsiak, ruins on 
its northern side. 
