174 DANIEL BRUUN. 
does, collects in the tracts of valleys and clefts between the mountain 
tops. The height decreases eastwards, likewise the wild appearance of 
the mountains deteriorates in that direction. In the vicinity of the east 
coast the mountains are seldom over 5000 feet high. The large southern 
islands completely resemble the mainland. 
The centre of Greenland’s southern point is towards the west a 
magnificent mountainous landscape with immense, coagulating glaciers, 
whilst the lower eastern part is covered with a layer of snow-covered 
ice, which lies in hills and dales according to the country it covers, and 
above which all the hill-tops rise. This at least holds good for the tract 
south of a line between the centre of Tasermiut and Kangerdlugsuat- 
siakfiord. — Although glaciers are found all over the mountains on the 
mainland they are seldom on the islands, and the biggest glaciers Holm 
saw were on Chr. IV’s island. 
It is evident that “Kaarsööe” and Hvidserk have lain in these parts. 
Finnsbudir lay west of Hvidserk possibly on the east coast (refer page 
114). Ollumlengri is perhaps the long narrow sound /kerasarssuk (in 
Greenland this name means the large narrow sound), il it is not Kanger- 
dlugsuatsiak which is further north. 
The following will be stated out of an ancient manuscript, which 
concerns the east coast and the country’s south point: 
“There is a stream called Hafhverf on the east side of the country, 
thereafter Spalsund, thereafter Drangey, then Sölvadalr which is the 
most eastern settlement.” 
The above named localities: Berufiord “tar to the east of Skagefiord”, 
Spalsund (= the narrow sound), and Drangey (= the island with the 
pointed rock) must be sought on the south point of the country in the 
vicinity of the inhabited regions; but however beyond them. 
The southern part of the Eystribygd (eastern settlement). 
The greatest part of the territory which comprises the ancient 
eastern settlement consists of an extent of coast with high mountains, 
behind which the inland ice stretches. 
The coast is intersected by deep fiords, the banks of which in some 
places were not very broad, but on the contrary rising fairly steeply. 
The Norse farms often lie on this underground; but in the fiords, head- 
Jands and isthmuses are also found, and between them comparatively 
low territories, where one finds several farms up country. 
The eastern settlement’s territory stretched from the region N. W. 
of Cape Farewell through the present Julianehaab’s district to the north 
of Arsukfiord. 
We will start at the settlement’s southern boundary and go north- 
wards. Fortunately we have at onee a point which is accurately fixed, 
