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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
CHAPTER VII. 
ArrHOACII THE COAST OF GREENLAND_SURVEY RE¬ 
SUMED.-SEVERAL ISLANDS DISCOVERED.-HEAD¬ 
LANDS, BAYS, AND ISLANDS NAMED.-EXTRAORDI¬ 
NARY MOUNTAINS.—ICEBERGS.-FIRST LANDING ON 
THE COAST.-DISCOVER TRACES OF RECENT INHABI¬ 
TATION.—INVERTED IMAGE OF A SHIP SEEN IN THE 
AIR, RECOGNISED.-LARGE INLET DISCOVERED, AND 
EXAMINED.— SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH LAND¬ 
ING EFFECTED. 
Friday, July 1 9th. —Our endeavours to find 
whales at a distance from the land, having, for 
nearly three weeks, almost altogether failed, I 
now considered myself to he fully justified, in at¬ 
tempting researches more immediately about the 
coast. My propensity to enterprise and investi¬ 
gation had long inclined me to try this station ; 
but until the present time, the main design of my 
voyage (for any deviation from which I was entirely 
responsible) did not seem to be compatible with 
my wishes. It was, therefore, with a high exci¬ 
tation of feeling, that I this day directed my atten¬ 
tion to the discovery of channels, however intricate, 
through an intervening barrier of fields and floes; 
