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East Coast of West Greenland. 
^—the storm rose and continued to the 11th, when it raged with 
great violence during the whole day. The account of the storm 
is one of the most interesting relations in this interesting volume. 
Captain Scoresby expresses strongly his feelings of gratitude, 
for his preservation during these terrible scenes of danger. On 
the 14th September, the sun exhibited a curious appearance at 
setting. A little before the lower limb had descended to the ho- 
rizon, it became suddenly elongated downwards, in the form of 
a prodigious ball of fire. This appearance occurred when the 
sun was directly in a line with Inisterhol on the coast of Ire- 
land, which not only eclipsed the light upon this island, but em- 
blazoned it with the most splendid luminary of our system. In 
their progress southward, the arrangement of the light-houses, 
on different points of the coast, gave rise to some excellent re- 
marks on the necessity of regular, systematic, and easily intelli- 
gible descriptions of them, for the use and safety of mariners. 
The Baffin reached Great Orme Head on Wednesday the 
18th September, and speedily afterwards Liverpool. 
The Journal is succeeded by a valuable and interesting Appen- 
dix, consisting of nine different articles. No. 1. List of Specimens 
of Rocks brought from the Eastern Coast of Greenland, with 
geognostical remarks by Professor Jameson. No. 9 >. List of Plants, 
from the East Coast of Greenland, with some remarks by Dr 
Hooker, Professor of Botany, Glasgow. No. 3. List of Animals 
met with on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, with notes 
and memoranda, by Professor Jameson and Dr Traill. No. 4. 
Meteorological Table, including the daily latitude^ and longitude 
of the ship. No. 5. Journal of Proceedings on board of the 
Hercules of Aberdeen, on the Coast of Greenland. This jour- 
nal is valuable to the whale-fisher. It gives an account of the 
capture of whales at a very late season of the year, and includes 
some important observations on the dangerous nature of the 
East Coast of West Greenland, as a fishing-station, at the end 
of summer. It also includes an account of the sufferings by 
some of the crew of the ship King George. 
“ The crew of the King George, it appears, struck a fish during 
one of those severe gales which we had in the month of May, when 
the thermometer fell to zero or below. Thick weather setting in, 
the boats lost sight of the ship, and were exposed to the severities of 
