G KR E*E -N*+L:A‘i.N’. D. 
N° 120: Strirep Wrasse? Br. Zool. iii. 119: Ponca Norvecica, Faun. 
Groen]. N°121: THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK, Br. Zool. iii. N°129, not only in 
rivers but places overflowed by the fea. The Sarmon, N° 143, is extremely 
fearce at prefent; yet in Davis’s time, was among the prefents made to him by 
the favages; and Bajjin * faw moft amazing fhoals ef thefe fifh in Cockin’s Sound, 
on this weftern coaft, in lat. 65.45. The Satmo Carpio, Faun. Groenl. N° 124, 
is one of the moft common and ufeful fifhes ; is frequent in the lakes, rivers, and 
eftuaries. The Cuar, Br. Zool. iii. No 149, conforts with the other, and is as 
common. The SatmMo STAGNALIs, Faun. Groenl, N° 126, a new fpecies, found 
remote in the mountain lakes, and caught only by the hunters of Rein-deer. The 
Savmo Rivatrs, No 127, is another, inhabiting fmall brooks. The Satmo 
Arcticus, No 128, or CapELin of the Newfoundland. fithers +, is the laft 
of this genus, but the moft ufeful; the daily bread, and the fifth in higheft 
efteem with the Greenlanders, and providentially given to them in the greateft 
abundance. The Common Herrine, Br. Zool. iii. N° 160, is a rare fifh in thefe 
feas ; as is the ANcHovy, N° 163. 
The fame indefatigable Zoologift hath difcovered in this country (including 
ceruftaceous) not fewer than ninety-one Infects, a hundred and twenty-fix Vermes, 
fifty-nine fhells, and forty-two Zoophytes. 
Joun Davis, a moft able feaman, was the firft who examined the weft fide 
of Greenland. Before his time the eaftern coaft was the only part known to 
Europeans. He made there three different voyages, in 1585, 1586, and 1587. 
After doubling Cape Farewell, he founded, and could not find bottom with three 
hundred fathoms of line. North of what he properly called the Land of Defola- 
tion, he arrived in a filthy, black, and ftagnating water, of the depth of a hun- 
dred and twenty fathoms. He found drift-wood in lat. 65, and one entire tree 
fixty feet long, with its root; the fpecies were Fir, Spruce, and Juniper f, 
which came down from remote places on the banks of the rivers of Hud/on’s 
Bay; for Mr. Hutchins affures me, that to this day, in certain years, vaft quanti- 
ties of timber are brought down with the ice at the opening of the rivers. He alfo 
met with black Pumices ||, whether from neighboring vulcanoes, burning or ex~ 
tin@, remains unknown ; or whether, which is moft probable, conveyed there 
from Iceland. The ftone of the country is moftly granitical. Some fand-ftone, 
and many forts of coarfe marble. The Lapis Ollaris is found here in abun- 
dance, and of great ufe to the natives for making of pots. ‘Talc is frequent here,, 
* Purchas, ili, 848. + See it well engraven in M. Du Hamel, Hift, de Poiffonss part it. 
tab. xxvi, 4 Davis's Voy.in Hack/uyt, iii, 103. Same, 122» 
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