VOYAGE TO GREENLAND. 
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Ice-blink to the north-east of BaaVs river, seven 
hundred and sixty-nine more. At this last point 
the southern district terminated ; and the northern 
commencing here, extended to latitude 76° 3' N. 
It contained the following divisions ; Eges-mindes, 
Christian-haab, Jacob’s-haun, Ormenisks, and Up- 
perville ; and possessed a population of three thou- 
sand persons. The country from Lai. 67° to 69° is 
inhabited ; the natives belonging to this division 
situated round Disco, or fish bay, have their houses 
at these colonies for the sake of the whale fishery. 
The natives of Ormenisks live in the interior during 
winter for the convenience of catching seals. At 
Tessarereist, an island in 74° 15', resides one family 
who are the most northern inhabitants known. The 
southern part of Old Greenland, as laid down in 
the ancient Dutch charts, is intersected by three 
pervious straits or passages, stretching across the 
country from the east coast to that of Davis’ Straits ; 
these are laid down as follows : the most southerly 
is at Ice-blink, and this channel is presumed to 
be the strait in which Frobisher penetrated sixty 
leagues in 1576, and to which his name was given. 
At the western entrance of this inlet, is said to be 
one of the most extraordinary phenomena ever be- 
held ; in an arched bridge formed of ice, extending 
from land to land, for the space of eight leagues in 
length and two in breadth. The next passage 
is represented to be about thirty-two leagues further 
to the north, at Bar or Bear sound ; and the last 
opens from Ice bay, Disco. 
