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70° W. of Greenwich, trends nearly due cast and west, (E. 20° N.) 
This northern face of Greenland is broken by two large bays, at the 
base of which are numerous granitoid islands, which, as you approach 
longitude G5° W., assume the form of an archipelago. Fifteen 
islands were surveyed and located here. The aspect of the coast is 
imposing, abutting upon the water-line in headlands from eight hundred 
to fourteen hundred feet high, and one range of precipice presenting 
an unbroken wall of forty-five miles in length. Its geological structure 
is of the older red sandstones and silurian limestones, overlying a 
primary basis of massive syenites. The sandstones to the south of 78° 
seem to form the floor of the bay. They are in series, with intercalated 
greenstones and other ejected plutonic rocks, and form the chief 
girders of the coast. Upon this and collateral subjects I shall, with 
your permission, address a special report to the Department. 
The further progress of our parties toward the Atlantic was arrested 
by a great glacier, which issued in latitude 79° 12' N., longitude 
G4° 20' W., and ran directly north. This forms an insuperable barrier 
to exploration in this direction: it is continuous with the mcr ch glace 
of interior Greenland, and is the largest true glacier known to exist. 
Its great mass adapts itself to the configuration of the basis-country 
which it overlies. Its escarpment abutting upon the water presents 
a perpendicular face varying from three to five hundred feet in height. 
The lines of crevasse and fracture are on an unexampled scale of 
interest. The bergs, which are ejected in lines, arrange themselves 
in a sort of escalade, which confers a character of great sublimity upon 
the landscape. 
It was followed along its base, and traced into a new and northern 
land, trending far to the west. This laud I have named Washington . 
The large bay which separates it from the coast of Greenland and the 
glacier I havo described bears on my chart the name of our liberal 
countryman, Mr. Peabody. 
The coasts of this new territory, adjoining Peabody Bay, have been 
accurately delineated by two parties, whose results correspond. Its 
southwestern cape is in latitude 80° 20' N., by observation with artificial 
horizon ; its longitude, by chronometer and bearings, 66° 42' W. of 
Greenwich. The cape was doubled by William Morton and our Es¬ 
quimaux, with a team of dogs, and the land to the north traced until 
they reached the large indentation named Constitution Bay. The 
whole of this line was washed by open water, extending in an iceless 
channel to the opposite shores on the west. This western laud I 
have inscribed with the name of Henry Grinncll. 
