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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
lets apparently interminable, included between 
the latitudes of 75° and 69°. The extent surveyed, 
measured, in a waving line from headland to head¬ 
land, (which is the distance that a vessel would 
run along it, sailing parallel to the shore,) is about 
400 geographical miles; but, if measured so as 
to include all the coast delineated, in its various 
windings and sinuosities, the extent amounts to 
nearly 800 miles. 
Nearly four-fifths of this extent was laid down 
from intersecting bearings, and the remaining one- 
fifth was projected from single bearings, with es¬ 
timated distances. About one-half of the whole 
extent, the part included between latitude 69^°, 
and latitude 72J°, was surveyed at a convenient dis¬ 
tance from the shore; but the other half, though 
partly derived from intersecting bearings, was sur¬ 
veyed at such a distance as to render the detail 
of the coast somewhat uncertain. An inspection 
of Plate III., however, containing a representa¬ 
tion of the coast, on the northern limit of the 
survey, from Gale ITamkes’ Land down to Hud¬ 
son’s Hold-with-Hope, will, I think, give satis¬ 
factory evidence, that the coast was in general 
so bold and well-defined, as to afford sufficient 
opportunity for obtaining a good general survey. 
Should there happen to be any very low land, in¬ 
deed, along this coast, I acknowledge that we were 
