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in relation to these, the reader perhaps will find undeservedly 

 neglected , as it reminds us of apparently the most marvellous 

 products of arctic nature, the floating icebergs. They are only 

 named in the Greenlandic , Labradorian and Central dialects, it 

 is questionable whether they have an adequate name in the 

 Mackenzie , and in the extreme western vocabularies none at 

 all was met with. The cause must simply be, that the occur- 

 rence of icebergs is limited to Davis Strait, Baffin's Bay and a 

 part of the northern Atlantic, stragglers occasionally slipping 

 into the sounds of the Central Regions. If really the original 

 Eskimo have immigrated from the west to the east, parting in 

 the Central Regions for Greenland and Labrador, they could 

 not have become acquainted with the icebergs before they 

 separated. The word for bergs is also quite different in Green- 

 land and Labrador, but of course this fact is too isolated and 

 uncertain for serving to support any such conclusion. 



SAFE CONCLUSIOINS TO BE DRAWN FROM THE FACTS 

 HERE STATED. If now we retrospectively examine what here 

 has been stated, at first it is possible, that more complete 

 vocabularies from the western dialects would have added con- 

 siderably to the number of words contained in our list, espe- 

 cially as this material originally has been collected by explorers 

 without any idea of Avhat could have been most desirable for 

 our research. If this be taken into consideration, our number 

 of identical names within the sphere of ideas we have pro- 

 posed to investigate, must be found to be somewhat consider- 

 able. A comparison of the said names as we have given, with the 

 appended and more complete tables, will show, that certainly 

 difference is found respecting some objects still belonging to 

 those which were new to the original Eskimo settlers, but they 

 will prove to be of less importance. It also happens in several 

 such cases, that the true Greenlandic word has been discovered 

 as being used contemporaneously with the diff'ering counterpart 



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