698 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [June 22, 
irrelevant in this light to present the following list of a portion 
of the annual exports of the Danish settlements in 1855? :— 
9569 barrels of seal-oil. 
47809 seal-skins. 
6346 reindeer-skins. There is on record the fact of 30,000 
being exported in one year. 
1714 fox-skins. 
34 bear-skins (the animal being almost extinct in Danish Green- 
land). 
194 dog-skins (in addition to the numerous teams used by the 
natives). 
- 3487 lbs. rough eider-down. 
5206 lbs. of feathers. 
439 lbs. of narwhal ivory (the natives also using up much for 
their implements). 
51 lbs. of walrus ivory (the walrus being little pursued). 
And 3596 Ibs. of whalebone (very few of the Balena mysticetus 
being killed). 
Add to this that, when the Danes came to Greenland first, there was 
a population not much less than 30,000; and to this day there lives 
within the Danish possessions a healthy, hearty race of upwards of 
10,000 civilized intelligent hunters of narwhal, seal, and reindeer,. 
with schools and churches within sight of the eternal inland ice, 
and with a long night of four months, which, perhaps, Scotland had 
not during the glacial epoch. I do not believe, however, that our 
shores were inhabited then; but still I see no reason why they 
could not have been; and with the bright skies and warm sunshiny 
days of a Greenland summer fresh in my memory, I cannot bring 
myself to believe in the poetically gloomy pictures pseudo-scientific 
writers have delighted to draw of the leaden skies, the misty air, 
and unutterable dreariness of our Scottish shores in that incalcu- 
lably distant period when glaciers ran through our valleys from the 
inland ice, and icebergs crashed in our romantic glens, then fjords 
of that glacial coast. 
Thus, in the barest outlines, I have endeavoured to indicate 
what I believe to be the origin of the different glacier-remains 
of our own country. Many facts in support of the glacial-ice-cap 
theory could have been adduced ; but as these are already familiar 
to all geologists, it would merely be a waste of space to repeat 
them here, especially as this is not intended to be a treatise on 
glacial remains in Britain. 
In closing the paper, I may briefly recapitulate the inferences to 
be drawn from what we see; and in these inferences I agree almost 
entirely with Mr. Jamieson, so that it will be only a réswmé of 
what he has already, and in a much better manner, described. 
1 For it I am indebted to my friend the Chevalier Rink, now of Copenhagen, 
the most eminent authority on all matters connected with Greenland, See also 
my monographs of Greenland Mammals in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London’ for 1868, and in ‘ Petermann’s Geographische Mitthei- 
lungen,’ 1869. 
