VOYAGE TO GREENLAND. 
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deck, the commiseration of every one on board was 
sincerely given to me. I endeavoured to resign 
myself to the evils of the disorder, my only dread 
being, lest I should not be able to accomplish what 
was so much the object of my voyage— the making 
improvements in the whale-fishery. Feeling, as I 
do, for the sufferings of others by violent sea-sick- 
ness, sufferings beyond the power of language to 
describe, I exhort medical men to pay attention to 
the malady, either to its prevention, or to the mitiga- 
tion of its effects : they would thus confer a bles- 
sing on many, and would receive that best and 
most grateful reward— a self-approving heart, in 
having afforded comfort to their fellow-creatures 
under a most distressing and overpowering disease. 
During one of the short intervals in the 
April 16 . Qf malady, in which I was 
able to reach the deck, we passed close on the west- 
ward side of the Ferroe Islands. They were much 
obscured by mist: but at intervals, the sun had 
power to dispel it, and they presented themselves, 
many in number, and of varied extent, shewing per- 
pendicular cliffs, and other rugged features, with 
glens much furrowed by the torrents of rain. Of 
those violent winds, for which they are so re- 
nowned, we experienced a specimen in such gusts, 
as threatened to rend the sails from the yards of 
the ship. The coast that we saw was without 
vegetation or fertilized soil, without sign of habita- 
tion and apparently destined to be a residence rather 
for birds than for man. These islands are subject 
