LANDING AT CAPE HOPE. 
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was spotted with numerous little patches of snow, 
but by far the greater proportion of the surface of 
the ground was bare. 
Near the southern extremity of Perspective 
■Ridge, I landed, on the afternoon of the 25th, at 
Cape Hope. I selected this spot, on account of 
an irregular rocky point jutting into the sea, 
which promised to afford something more inte¬ 
resting in the mineralogy, than the adjoining 
flat shore: but this was not particularly the case, 
the rocks being entirely primitive, and resembling 
those at Cape Lister. 
Again we discovered traces of inhabitants, in 
the remains of summer-huts and tumuli, similar 
to those before observed. We also obtained se¬ 
veral fragments of the horns of rein-deer, which 
had been artificially divided; with human bones, 
and the hones of dogs, hares, and some other 
quadruped. The skull of a dog was found in a 
small grave, which was probably that of a child, 
as Crautz informs us, in his excellent “ History of 
Greenland,” that the Greenlanders lay a dog’s 
head hy the grave of a child, considering that, as 
a dog can find its way every where, it will shew 
the ignorant babe the way to the land of souls. 
There were very few living creatures to be seen 
excepting insects ; scarcely any birds, and no qua¬ 
drupeds but three white hares ( Lepas gOficialis 
