Captain Scoresby's Voyage to West Greenland. 841 
In the Introduction to the Voyage, we are presented with a 
history of the ancient settlements on this coast, and of the many 
attempts made to re-discover them. Although all these attempts 
proved abortive, owing to the vast body of ice, extending to a 
great distance from the shore, it appears, from the observations 
contained in the Journal now before the public, that the coast is 
not inaccessible at present, but, on the contrary, that it may be 
visited annually. If the coast, from the Arctic Circle to Cape 
Farewell, be really defended by a barrier of ice, as is the general 
opinion, of the accuracy of which, however, our author has 
great doubts, the course he recommends to be pursued is a pa- 
rallel betwixt the latitude of 69° and 75°, in some part or other 
of which limits, and frequently in many different places, the coast 
may be reached every summer ; and, when the navigator once 
gets betwixt the land and the ice, there would be no great diffi- 
culty in reaching any of the stations of the old colonies, even down 
to Cape Farewell, the southern promontory of Greenland. Our 
author, in communicating his discoveries and observations, and 
in relating the various interesting incidents of the voyage, has 
chosen, and with great propriety, the journal form. We shall, 
therefore, in the account we are now to lay before our readers of 
the contents of this important work, adopt the same order. 
The ship Baffin, commanded by Captain Scoresby, in which 
the voyage was made, appears to have been admirably fitted for 
the Greenland Seas. The various arrangements for the pur- 
poses of the whale-fishery were of the most complete kind, and 
nothing was neglected which could contribute to the comfort, 
and secure the safety of the crew. All the preparations and ar- 
rangements being finished, the Baffin sailed from Liverpool on 
the 27th March 1822. On the 28th, they were forced, by stress 
of weather, into Loch Byan. During the leisure afforded by 
this detention, our author employed himself in constructing a 
temporary apparatus for obviating the errors produced on the 
rate of chronometers by the action of terrestrial magnetism on 
those parts of the instruments which^are formed of steel. The 
weather having become favourable, they left Loch Ryan on the 
7th April ; on the 10th, passed the Island of Tiree ; and the 
following day, at day-break, discovered the wild and solitary 
rock of St Kilda, which was passed at noon. 
