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(according to the testimony of Mr Scott, snrgeon 
of the Fame), “ of as fine meadow-land as could 
be seen in England.” There was a considerable 
variety of grasses, and many other plants in a 
beautiful state. A good deal of the vegetation, 
however, that was without shelter, was complete¬ 
ly parched up by the heat of the sun. The most 
luxuriant tracts were those little low plains, simi¬ 
lar to that near Neill’s Cliffs, which were covered 
with a tolerable soil, where the percolation of the 
water from the melted snows of the higher land, 
produced a fruitful irrigation of the plains below. 
I obtained here very fine specimens, though most¬ 
ly of the dwarf kind, of Ranunculus nivalis, Saxi- 
fraga cernua, S. nivalis, S. emspitosa or Grocn- 
landica, S. oppositifolia, Eriopliorum capitatum, 
Epilobium latifolium, Dryas octopetala, Papaver 
nudicaule, Rhodiola rosea, &c. with the creeping 
dwarf willows before met with. The whole num¬ 
ber of species that I collected was about forty. 
The produce of Jameson’s Land, in the zoolo¬ 
gical department, as far as our researches extend¬ 
ed, consisted, in quadrupeds, of rein-deer, white 
hares, and a new species of mouse, which has been 
named Mus Grocnlandica # ;—in birds, of eider- 
ducks, brent-geese, partridges, plover, and the 
* See Appendix No. III. 
