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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
lia, Papavcr nudicaule, and Ranunculus niva¬ 
lis. 
Sending the boat along shore, I traced the hill 
towards the west for three or four miles, passing 
over a continued surface of loose stones, or over 
beds of ice and snow, and then descended near 
Cape Swainson, towards the beach, consisting 
here of a strip of flat strand, about a furlong in 
breadth. Here, the first interesting object was 
discovered, consisting of a circle of stones, so ar¬ 
tificially placed, that there could be no doubt but 
it was the work of man; and soon afterwards 
other appearances of manual arrangement were 
met with. These were the remains of habita¬ 
tions, consisting of two circular walls, or in some 
places merely of rows of stones, inclosing a clear 
area of about five yards in diameter, laid out ex¬ 
actly in the manner in which the Esquimaux pre¬ 
pare the ground for their summer huts. Besides 
these, there were several hollow tumuli, neatly 
arched in the form of a bee-hive, with an open¬ 
ing either at the top or on one side. These re¬ 
sembled the stores wherein the Esquimaux are 
known to deposit the produce of their fishing or 
hunting, when too considerable for present use. 
They varied in size from 2^ to 4} feet, interior dia¬ 
meter. The principal part of these remains occur¬ 
red on the west side of Cape Swainson, where also 
