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 desolate and in ruins, the firth flowing into the house at high 

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

 house so near the water's edge. 



The points mentioned above, the writer of the letter had visited ; 

 but he adds, on the authority of a countr3^man of his own, highly 

 deserving of credit, that at Napparsok, ten Danish miles (forty five 

 English) 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. Pingel is not aware of any instance of subsidence in the 

 more northern districts ; but he suspects that the phenomenon reach- 

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

 iCeedings of the Geol. 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, 

 whieh 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- 



