380 Miscellanies. 



The neighborhood of the colony of Frederickehaab (lat. 62° N.) 

 was once inhabited by Greenlanders ; but the only vestige of their 

 dwelling is a heap of stones, over which the firth flows at high water. 



Near the well known glacier which separates the district of Fred- 

 erickehaab from that of Fiskenass, is a group of islands called Ful- 

 luartalik, now deserted ; but on the shore are the ruins of winter 

 dwellings, which are often overflowed. 



Half a mile to the west of the village of Fiskenass (lat. 63° 4' 

 N.) the Moravians founded, in 1758, the establishment called Litch- 

 tenfeld. In thirty or forty years they were obliged once, perhaps 

 twice, to move the poles upon which they set their large boats, call- 

 ed Umiak, or Women's boats. The old poles still remain as silent 

 witnesses, but beneath the water. 



To the north east of the mother colony, Godthaab, (lat. 64° 10' 

 N.) is a point called Vildmansnass by St. Egede, the venerable 

 apostle of the Greenlanders. In his time, 1721 — 1736, it was in- 

 habited by several Greenland families, whose winter dwelling re- 

 mains desolnte and in ruins, the firth flowing; into the house at high 

 tide. Dr. Pingel says, that no aboriginal Greenlander builds his 

 boas • q o near the water's edge. 



Tin mentioned aboi the writer of the letter had visited; 



b n;h< -. on I he prii qX a countryman of his own, highly 



deserviug oi ©redit, that at JXapparsok, ten Danish miles (forty five 

 Engiish) to the north of Ny-Sukkertop (lat. 65° 20' N.) the ruins 

 of ancient Greenland winter houses are to be seen at low water. 



Dr. Pin^ei »* n-u awtfre of any instance of subsidence in the 

 Hi or* northern ,! sir s; but he stasp&tsl that the phenomenon reach- 

 es at least as far as Disco Bay, or nearly to 69° north lat. — Pro- 

 ceedings of the GcoL Soc. of London. Vol. II. No. 42. - 



2. Dreelite ; a new mineral species. By M. Dufrenoy, (Ann. de 

 Chim. et Phys. T. 60, p. 102.) — Dreelite occurs in small crystals 

 disseminated on the surface and in the cavities of a quartzose rock, 

 which contained also a white mineral supposed to be halloysite. 

 The crystals were unmodified rhombohedrons of 93° or 94°, of a 

 white color and pearly lustre ; the lustre is quite brilliant on a sur- 

 face of fracture. Its cleavage is indicated only by lines parallel to 

 the faces. In hardness it is somewhat superior to carbonate of lime. 

 Sp. gr.=3.2 — 3.4. Under the blowpipe it fuses into a white bleb- 





