S56 Captain Scoresby’s Journal of a Voyage to the 
Long. 252° 2V 45" W. The great inlet already mentioned was 
named Scoresby’s Sound, in compliment to Mr Scoresby senior , 
one of the most active and skilful navigators of the Greenland 
Sea ; and our readers, we are sure, will do justice to the feeling 
and delicacy of the following remarks : 
te Very little assistance was hitherto afforded me by any indivi- 
dual, in the investigation of these regions; but where any valuable 
information had been received, I considered it incumbent on me to 
compliment the person whose researches had been useful to me, by 
applying his name to the portion of land, or sea, respecting which 
he had supplied the information. Agreeable to this practice, I could 
not, without evident injustice, overlook the very important re- 
searches of my Father in this inlet, — who not only was, I had rea- 
son to believe, the original discoverer of it, but who was the first 
navigator who entered it, and determined its general position, and 
who, with a peculiar perseverance, sent his boats and examined two 
of its extensive ramifications, to a distance of sixty miles from the 
extreme capes, or entrance of the inlet. As such, after some scruples 
of delicacy, lest it should be considered as bordering on self-com- 
pliment, I ventured to name this capacious inlet, in honour of my 
father, Scoresby’s Sound.” P. 196, 197. 
After a description of Scoresby’s Sound, we have an account 
of another landing on the coast of Cape Hope. Here traces of 
inhabitants, in the remains of huts and tumuli, resembling those 
before observed, were met with. Fragments of the horns of 
rein-deers, with human bones, and those of dogs, were collected. 
The skull of a dog was found in a small grave, probably that of 
a child, as Crantz informs us, that the Greenlanders lay a dog’s 
head by the grave of a child, considering that, as a dog can find 
its way every where, it will shew the ignorant babe the way to the 
land of souls. Few living creatures were to be seen, excepting in^ 
sects ; scarcely any birds, and the only quadruped met with was 
the xvhite hare (Lepus glacialis). The insects were numerous,, 
consisting of mosquitoes, and several species of butterflies. The 
heat amongst the rocks was oppressive, and the temperature 
about 70° Fahrenheit. In the account of Jameson’s Land, 
which follows, a description is given of the fine section of the 
coal formation at Neill’s Cliffs ; and also of the numerous traces 
of inhabitants, some very recent, seen in the neighbouring dis- 
trict. One hamlet consisted of nine or ten huts. The roofs 
in all the huts had fallen in, or had been removed, on ac- 
count of the wood of which they are composed ; what remained 
