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For the purpose of dredging, for which two crews were sometimes 

 employed, new men were obtained from Claushavn, and those we 

 had hitherto employed were dismissed home. The country round 

 about the colony is a plain rich in flowers, surrounded by hills of 

 only a few hundred feet high, with a fenny moor-land soil, and a 

 small lake in the middle. This, like other lakes in the neighbour- 

 hood, was interesting both in zoological and in botanical respects, on 

 account of three phanerogamous plants, not previously met with in 

 Greenland, being there found. As the stay of nearly two weeks which 

 we made here happened just when the phanerogamic flora — which, in 

 consequence of the varied nature of the ground, is here very richly 

 represented — is in its fullest flower, and as moreover the moss-flora, 

 for the same reasons, is one of the richest in the gneiss-regions, and 

 the dredgings brought in a number of marine algse, the botanical 

 collection made at Claushavn forms a considerable part of the whole. 



" We left Claushavn in the afternoon of the 13th of August, and 

 after three or four hours rowing, passed the ice- stream, just at that 

 moment giving off its ice into the sea, to Jakobshavn. In conse- 

 quence of the vicinity of that colony to the ice-stream, the dredging 

 here produced an interesting collection of marine animals, as well as 

 of algEe, among which was the Laminaria solidungida, previously only 

 known as belonging to Spitzbergen. The ruins and dirt-beds at the 

 old deserted site of Sermermiut were examined, and both from thence 

 and other places a number of flint tools were collected. The country 

 immediately around the colony consists of low rounded hills, but 

 further inland lies a tolerably extensive plain, with marshy soil and 

 some lakes, which is again inclosed by higher mountain ridges. 

 This likeness to the environs of Claushavn causes the vegetation at 

 the two places to be generally of a similar nature. 



" Aug. 19. At 11 A.M. we left Jakobshavn, and steering our course 

 northward, arrived in the evening at the mouth of lUartlek. After 

 passing through the narrow entrance to that fjord, inclosed on either 

 side by lofty cliff's, where there is a very strong current, we en- 

 camped at 11 P.M. beside a little calm harbour in the peninsula, 

 which separates the two arms of the gulf. 



On the 20th and 21st dredgings and botanical excursions were made 

 into the inner part of the gulf, extending nearly up to the inland ice. 

 It was from this point that Whymper and Brown ascended the inland 

 ice in 1867. I occupied myself principally with examining the 

 vegetation of the mountain tops, which do not here usually exceed 

 1000 feet in height. Instead of the fine weather which had hitherto 

 favoured us, on the 21st of August it began to rain, which hindered 

 our work, and the rain flowed down in such quantities from the 

 mountain slopes over the spot where our tent stood, that we were 

 obliged to leave. To get under cover we first rowed to the Green- 

 landers' houses at Pakitsok. Kain and contrary winds detained us 

 in these cottages (uninhabited during the summer) till the afternoon 

 of the 23rd of August, when we departed for Eitenbenk, where we 

 arrived in the night between the 23rd and 24th of August. 



" In contrast to the southern side of Disko Bay, the mountains on 



