DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND. 



Greenland is that northern hand which runs from south 

 to cast, extending- northwards from Cape Farewell in the 

 Deucalcdonian Ocean, along the coasts of the Arctic Sea 

 which trend towards Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla. Some 

 say that it extends so far as to join the regions of Tartary; 

 hut this is uncertain, as you will hereafter perceive. It has, 

 then, on the east the Arctic Sea ; on the south the Deucalc- 

 donian Ocean ; on the west, Hudson's or Christian Straits, 

 and the Sea of Hudson or Christian which separates it from 

 America. Its length on the northern coast is unknown. The 

 Danish Chronicle on this head states, that it forms the north- 

 ern extremity of the world, and that beyond it there is no 

 more northern land to be found. There are some who think 

 that Greenland is part of the American continent, since the 

 time when the English, in an attempt to pass through Davis 

 Straits with the view of discovering a passage into the East 

 by that route, found that what Davis had taken for a strait 

 was a gulf. I have, however, a Danish narrative, by a Danish 

 captain named John Munck, who tried this passage to the 

 East by the north-west of the Gulf of Davis, and according 

 to what he says there is great probability that this land is 

 entirely separated from America. This I shall show you in 

 due time when I come to speak of that voyage. 



The elevation of Greenland taken from Cape Farewell, 

 which is its most southerly point, according to the calculation 



