GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
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CHAPTER VIII. 
LARGE INLET NAMED AFTER CAPTAIN SCOItESBY, SE¬ 
NIOR, SCORESBy's SOUND .—DESCRIPTION OF ITS DIF¬ 
FERENT RAMIFICATIONS.—IIALL’s INLET.-HURRY’S 
INLET.-RESEARCHES AT CAPE HOPE AND ON JA5IE- 
SON’s LAND.-DESERTED HAMLET.-ESQUIMAUX RE¬ 
MAINS.—CAPE BREWSTER.-PECULIAR TIDES AND 
CURRENTS.-GREAT DEPTH OF WATER. 
"Very little assistance was hitherto afforded me 
by any individual, in the investigation of these 
regions; but where any valuable information had 
been received, I considered it incumbent on me to 
compliment the person, whose researches had been 
useful to me, by applying his name to the portion 
of land, or sea, respecting which he had supplied 
the information. Agreeable to this practice, I 
could not, without evident injustice, overlook the 
very important researches of my Father in this 
inlet,—who not only was, I had reason to believe, 
the original discoverer of it, but who was the 
first navigator who entered it, and determined its 
general position, and who, with a peculiar perse¬ 
verance, sent his boats and examined two of its 
