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the farthest circle of the ice for an outlet to the mys¬ 
terious channels beyond. The scheme could not be 
carried out in its details. Yet it was prosecuted far 
enough to indicate what must be our future fields of 
labour, and to determine many points of geographical 
interest. Our observations were in general confirmar 
tory of those which had been made by Mr. Bonsall; 
and they accorded so well with our subsequent surveys 
as to trace for us the outline of the coast with great 
certainty. 
If the reader has had the patience to follow the 
pathway of our little brig, he has perceived that at 
Refuge Harbor, our first asylum, a marked change 
takes place in the line of direction of the coast. 
From Cape Alexander, which may be regarded as the 
westernmost cape of Greenland, the shore runs nearly 
north and south, like the broad channel of which it is 
the boundary; but on reaching Refuge Inlet it bends 
nearly at a right angle, and follows on from west to 
east till it has passed the 65th degree of longitude. 
Between Cape Alexander and the inlet it is broken 
by two indentations, the first of them near the Etah 
settlement, which was visited in 1855 by the Rescue 
Expedition under Lieutenant Hartstene, and which 
bears on my charts the name of that noble-spirited 
commander; the other remembered by us as Lifeboat 
Cove. In both of these the glaciers descend to the 
water-line, from an interior of lofty rock-clad hills. (3J) 
My sketches give but a rude idea of their picturesque 
sublimity. 
