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along the west coast, they compose a strophe of an old Danish 



popular ballad. — After this discovery, I must accordingly make 



some change in my remarks about these place-names. The 



word Nice-fluvius on the maps has probably no connection with 



ON. hnisa. 



ad p. 4 3. 



Even if Cranz's information does not refer to East Green- 

 landers living as far north as the inhabitants of Angmagsalik 

 (which I now- consider rather improbable), still it shows that at 

 that time too there was a striking difference between the dialect 

 of the northern East Greenlanders and that of the southern 

 West Greenlanders, whereas the dialectal differences between the 

 same East Greeulanders and the northern West Greenlanders 

 was not so great. 



The Eskimo at Cape York seem to have been mentioned 

 for the first time by Poul Egede in his Journal p. 239 (for 

 the year 1771), where he says: A colony has been founded this 

 year at a point 73° ]\. Lat. on the island Upernavik, the native 

 name, which signifies spring-place, having been retained. The 

 next year an ordained parson and a native "kateket" are sent 

 up there. The land here is found to be lower than it is farther 

 south and consists almost wholly of islands; it extends in a 

 north-easterly direction and afterwards, as the Green- 

 landers say, in a more easterly direction as soon as 

 one has passed to the north of the so-called lisblink (glacier). 

 There are also said to be inhabitants farther north 

 at lb degrees, and might it not be worth the trouble to try 

 to get there, since the passage is not so endangered by ice as 

 the passage to Österbygd etc. 



ad pp. 4 9 — 60. Bibliographical Survey. 

 It is not my intention to make this complete, but merely to 

 call attention to some additional works which contain specimens 

 of the Eskimo language and might therefore be of use to the 

 comparative philologist. 



