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pendence Bay on the north east side of Greenland (lat. 81° 37' N.), 

 no doubt is left that a connection still exists between the 

 musk-oxen of North Greenland and East Greenland. Already 

 Dr. W. Peters (Geogr. iMittheil. 1873 p. 309), and Dr. G. Hart- 

 laub (2*® deutsche Nordpolarfahrt, B. I, p. 536 — 544), supposed 



Fig. 3. 

 (Drawn by E. Ditlevsen.) 



this to exist, musk-oxen having been found in Hall Land in 1871 

 — 72, by the »Polaris» expedition. 



There is no doubt either that it appears also on the coast of 

 East Greenland, betwen lat. 77° N. and lat. 81° 37' N., as Nathorst 

 has represented it, in his excellent little map of the present 

 extension of the musk-ox. 



But to the South of Scoresby Sund it was not observed 



