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JOURNAL. 

 Auguft. correfponded exactly with the latitude of Cloven Cliff, 

 determined before; the longitude 9° 50' 45" E ; dip 82 ° 

 8'* ; variation 18" 57' W; which agrees alfo with the 

 cbfervation made on fhore in July. The tide flowed here 

 half pait one, the fame as in Vogel Sang harbour. 



Oppofite to the place where the inilruments ftood, was 

 one of the moft remarkable Icebergs in this country. 

 Icebergs are large bodies of ice filling the vallies between 

 the high mountains ; the face towards the fea is nearly per- 

 pendicular, and of a very lively light green colour. That 

 reprefented in the engraving, from a fketch taken by Mr. 

 D'Auvergne upon the fpot, was about three hundred feet 

 high, with a cafcade of water iffuing out of it. The 

 black mountains, white fnow, and beautiful colour of the 

 ice, make a very romantick and uncommon picture. Large 

 pieces frequently break off from the Icebergs, and fall 

 with great noife into the water : we obferved one piece 

 which had floated out into the bay, and grounded In twenty- 

 four fathom ; it was fifty feet high above the furface of 

 the water, and of the fame beautiful colour as the Iceberg. 



A particular defcription of all the plants and animals 

 will have a place in the Appendix. I fhall here men- 

 tion fuch general obfervations as my fhort ftay enabled 

 me to make. The ftone we found was chiefly a kind of 

 -marble, which difiblved eafily in the marine acid. We 

 perceived no marks of minerals of any kind, nor the leaft 

 appearance of prefent, or remains of former Volcanoes. 

 Neither did we meet with infers, or any fpecies of 



reptiles ; 



