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appeared to be a large harbour. In two or three 
sites along this part of the coast, we saw some 
large glaciers, one of them that we passed this 
morning was estimated to be at least two miles 
long. A great number of icebergs were also seen 
in the course of the day: most of them lay be- 
tween us and the land, and several of them ap- 
peared to be aground, for the tide-mark on them 
was at one time five or six feet above the surface 
of the water. We sounded several times as we 
were passing, and found from sixty to seventy 
fathoms’ water. During these two days past, a 
great number of mallemucks, and several of the 
various other aquatic birds that frequent these 
seas have been seen, viz. glaucous, and ivory gulls, 
loons, ratges, and the black-diver, commonly called 
dovekey, or Greenland dove. 
Sunday, 3d. —'The wind being very light, and 
what little there was being against us, a party 
landed this forenoon on the coast situated in la- 
titude 71° 30’ N., and longitude 71° 15’ W. 
Near where we landed, there was an island about 
three miles long, situated in a sort of bay, and 
separated from the mainland by a channel about 
two miles broad. ‘The east end of this island, 
or that end which faced the sea, terminated in 
a very remarkable cliff} which was estimated to 
be from three to four hundred feet high, and 
rose quite perpendicularly from the sea; in one 
point of view, indeed, it overhung a little. The 
whole of the coast of this island, as far as we saw, 
was so precipitous as to be perfectly inaccessible. 
On the mainland, also, about this place, there are 
