NEW LAND BE CONNOITEBED. 
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laden with the same glaciers and snow fields that 
encumber Spitzbergen. Judge then of his surprise 
to find but one small glacier towards the south, while 
the mountain sides exhibited the colours of the rock 
of which they were composed, and several large 
tracts of water spread out over the surface of the 
land reflected in their placid bosoms the bright sky 
above. The shore was completely covered with an 
immeasurable mass of driftwood, which extended as 
far as one hundred feet from the vessel, and was 
heaped up to a height of twenty feet above the level 
of the water. The length of this land was estimated 
at forty-four sea miles (240 English miles). The 
mountain, where these observations were made, proved 
to be in lat. 79° 8', long. 30° 15'. The fauna met 
with included the ordinary Arctic species. Seals in 
abundance sported in the sea, herds of reindeer grazed 
along the sides of the mountains, and in the pastures 
which made the valleys green. Jonson and his 
men had never seen fatter or larger deer. Some of 
these animals were killed, and their great accumulation 
of fat appeared to them of such interest that means 
of preserving specimens for the museum at home were 
successfully taken ; these, together with portions of 
the rocks and fine specimens of fossil plants, were also 
procured for the same institution, as well as some for 
