SSO Prucecd'tiigs nfths British Association. 



aw] that StHtcnIioek is not, a? stated in No. 59. of the Edinburgh 

 li.'view, nil inlet, nor yet, as represented in most maps, the most 

 southern extremity of the mainland, but that it is identical with 

 Cape Farewell, and received its name, which means State's Pro- ■ 

 HTontory, from the Dutch navigators. The memoir was accom- 

 panitd by a copy of the southern part of Graah's chart of 

 Greenland, the only accurate one that has yet appeared ; from 

 the inspection of which, it was evident that no part of the main- 

 fend of Greenland could be seen from the open sea to the south, 

 and tl)at the only island on which is a promontory answering to 

 the description of Cape Farewell, is that most to the south of 

 tl;c sound Ikarescksoak, a sound considerably to the east of 

 Sermesok, which last has been brought down by Giesecke more 

 than half a degree too much to the south. An extract was also 

 •riven from Graah's narrative, to shew that he was of the same 

 opinion ; as well as one from Drage's account of the voyage in 

 California, published nearly ninety years ago, in wliich it is 

 expressly staled that Cape Farewell and Stalenhoek were the 

 English and Dutch names of the same cape. A singular error 

 m the Edinburgh Gazetteer, and in the index to the translation 

 of Malte-Brun, was adverted to. The error in the placing two 

 Cape Farewells on the south coast of Greenland, and moreover, 

 io making that on the cast coast more to the west than that on 

 the west coast, in nearly the same latitude. In conclusion, the 

 avjthor stated his opinion that Lieutenant Graah, by ascertaining 

 lljat there were no ruins on the east coast of Greenland from its 

 southern extremity to lat. 6o^°, had completely decided the long 

 disputed question respecting the situation of the CEsterbygd or 

 eastern settlement, by establishing the correctness of the suppo- 

 sition of Eggers, that it had been on the south-west coast, and 

 had received its name merely from the circumstance of its lying 

 to t!;e east of tlie other or vesterbygd. 



Remarks highly complimentary to Dr West, were made by 

 Mr Murchison, Sir J. Franklin, and Mr Smith of Jordanhill. 



Tuesday., Wth August. — 3. Archdeacon Verschoyle read a 

 Bolice of a system of trap-dykes passing through the counties of 

 T>Iavo and Sligo. The trap-dykes of that district are remarka- ' 

 %\e for their frequent occurrence, the unusual length and direct- ' 



