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from the fhore. 8th. There .are no ice mountains 
any where on thofe fhores. 9th. Thefe iflands 
come not from Greenland ; but are continually feen 
to fet that way, until they get cut of thefe Straits ; 
after which their courfe becomes more fouthcrly. 
Eaftly, they are not ice, but fnow frozen. Thefe 
circumftances, which are atteftable by too great a 
cloud of witneffes to be difputed, will, I apprehend, 
form fufficient data, whereby to give a very fatif- 
fadtory anfwer to the problem in queftion. 
This day, as I was obferving the fun’s meridional 
altitude, there came along fide of us three Efkimaux 
in their canoes, or, as they term them, Kiacks, but who 
had very little to trade, except toys. None of thefe had 
along with them any weapon that I faw, except a 
kind of dart, evidently conftru&ed for fea purpofes, 
as it had a buoy fixed to it, made of a large bladder 
blown up. 
The men have on their legs a pair of boots, 
made of feal fkin, and foled with that of a fea horfe; 
thefe come barely up to their knees j and above thefe 
they have breeches made of feal, or deer fkin, much 
in the form of our feamens fhort troufers. The re- 
maining part of their cloathing is all in one piece, 
much in the form of an Englifh fhift ; only it comes 
but juft below the waift-band of their breeches, and 
has a hood to it, like that of a woman’s cloak, 
which ferves inftead of a cap. Over thele they have 
a kind of foul-weather jacket, made of the fame 
leather with the legs of their boots, which they 
faften very tightly about their necks and wrifts ; 
and when they are in their Kiacks (which alfo are 
extremely well deferibed by Mr. Crantz) are likewile 
faftened 
