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little water-wheel. Down by the shore there lay, besides, a 

 couple of tent-rings. 



Two of the houses were excavated and yielded, considering 

 the circumstances, a comparatively rich harvest. Measure- 

 ments, however, were not taken ^).. 



XVil. At the spot where Stewart Ö pushes a spit of 

 land into the glacier which shoots out from the mainland in 

 the direction of the island, were observed on a little point 

 some ruined houses almost right out by the glacier ^). 



XVIH. All the previously mentioned settlements lie on 

 the stretch of coast explored by the expedition and hitherto 

 unknown, while the settlements on Кар Tobin lie in the 

 Scoresby Sund District, which had been visited on 

 several previous occasions. The settlement itself, however, 

 had never been visited before , and as it presents several 

 points of interest which add considerably to our previous 

 knowledge of Scoresby Sund, it shall, as was promised 

 above, receive a particular notice here. 



As to this settlement Lieutenant Koch has furnished me 

 with the following information: — 



"It had more or less the shape represented below (Fig. 5). 

 About 200 metres north of the settlement there was an extensive 

 burial-ground. The graves were not counted, but there were 

 certainly over twenty of them. The measurements of one of 

 the best preserved graves were: length 1"6 metres, breadth 

 0*6 metres, depth 0"35 metres (inner measurements). The 

 graves were built up of stones which fitted well together. The 

 roof was formed of flat stones resting on two drift-timber 

 logs. U contained a number of human l)ones scattered about 



1) Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol. XXVII. P. 164. 



2) do. do. Vol. XXVII. P. 280. 



