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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
of obtaining a very tolerable survey of all the pro¬ 
minent parts. In carrying on this work, I had 
already had five or six stations, determined astro¬ 
nomically, and had employed upwards of fifty 
angles or bearings. 
The general trending of this coast, extending 
from Gale TIamkes’ I3ay, in latitude 75°, to Bon- 
tekoe Island and Hold-with-Hope, in 73° 30', is 
SSW., true. It is almost wholly mountainous, 
rugged, and barren. Its general character is not 
unlike that of •Spitzbergen; but the quantity of 
snow upon it seems to be generally less. Its or¬ 
dinary height 1 estimated at 3000 feet; an ele¬ 
vation which it probably attaius within a mile or 
two of the sea. 
Of the land now' surveyed, only three or four 
places are noticed in the charts; these are Gale 
Harnkes ? Bay and Land at one extremity, and 
Bontekoe Island and Hudson'sHold-with-IIope 
at the other. There is also Broer Buy's Land; 
but I apprehended it is synonymous with Hold- 
with-Hope. These places can only be recognised 
from the latitude in which they are laid down; 
the longitudes being extremely wide of the truth, 
and their relative positions inaccurate. From 
Gale Harnkes’ Bay to Bontekoe Island, there are 
no capes nor inlets laid down ; whereas the coast 
presents many striking headlands and deep in- 
