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VOYAGE TO GREENLAND. 
maining. That this country, however, is still able 
to support a colony, may appear from the following 
considerations. The island of Iceland is exactly 
in the same latitude, as that part of Greenland to 
which I refer. It is represented by Mr. Hender- 
son, who has recently visited it, as being capable 
of growing corn, but the inhabitants consider the 
cultivation of grass, for the benefit of breeding 
sheep, to be more to their advantage. The nume- 
rous lakes, rivers and streams which intersect the 
island, produce an extraordinary abundance of 
salmon, and salmon trout ; and, on the coast, cod 
and other sea fish are in profusion ; birds for the 
sustenance and comfort of man are also found in 
the greatest plenty, and turf for fuel to supply 
all possible wants. I cannot therefore suppose 
that the same bounties of a kind Providence, would 
be withheld from Greenland, a country so nearly 
and similarly situated. I wish now to refer my 
reader to the general map, and to call his attention 
to the west side, or opposite coast of Old Green- 
land, (running by the side of Davis’ Straits), for the 
purpose of shewing in what high latitudes that 
part is inhabited, and that, consequently, the colo- 
nization of the eastern side would have nothing 
of peculiar severity in it. The west side of Old 
Greenland was visited and minutely examined, in 
the year 1813, by Sir Charles Giesecke, and di- 
vided into two districts; from Cape Farewell, or 
the southern extremity, to Ice-blink were two thou- 
sand three hundred and fourteen souls ; and from 
