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Scientific Intelligence . — Geography « 
GEOGRAPHY. 
3. Expedition to Explore the Shores of the Frozen Sea , and 
the Noi'th-East Coast of the Continent of Siberia. — Baron Wr an- 
gel ? and Lieutenant Arjon, who were sent in 1821 upon an ex- 
pedition to Siberia, the object of which was to determine geo- 
graphically the shores of the Frozen Sea, and the north-east of 
the vast continent of Siberia, as far as the country of the Tschut- 
sches, returned to Petersburg some weeks ago. M. Kyber, 
who accompanied the expedition as physician and naturalist, has 
arrived at Moscow, where he has been detained by sickness. 
The publication of the results of this important expedition is 
looked for with the greatest anxiety. — Leips. Lit. Zeit. No. 93. 
1825. 
4- Captain Parry's last Voyage. — Our readers may pro- 
bably expect from us some details in regard to Captain Parry’s 
last voyage ; but as the journals are still in the possession of the 
Admiralty, we have it not in our power to gratify them by any 
official and consequently accurate information. The various ac- 
counts published in the daily journals we know are incorrect ; 
and, therefore, cannot be recorded in this work. 
5. East Coast of West Greenland, formerly inhabited by 
Europeans. — Early history informs us that a part of the east 
coast of West Greenland was colonized by Norwegians from 
Iceland. The colony appears to have been considerable, and 
to have extended northward to Lat. 65° or 66°. Some au- 
thors, and particularly a writer in the Edinburgh Review, 
maintains that no such colony ever existed ; on the contrary, 
that the Norwegians landed and colonized the West, not the 
East, coast of Old Greenland. The late observations of Scores- 
by, and the details given by Giesecke, in a memoir pub- 
lished in the memoirs of the Royal Irish Academy, demon- 
strate the futility of the opinion just mentioned. Giesecke, 
who spent eight years in Greenland, tells us, he met with up- 
wards of fifty Norwegian houses, in the fiords or firths of South 
and East Greenland, fragments of church-bells, and skulls of 
the Caucasian or European race of man. In the language of 
the Greenlanders, he detected many Scandinavian or Icelandic 
words, used in domestic life, a proof that there existed a friendly 
