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and from that given to it by the charts published 
for the use of the whale-fishers, about 820 miles 
of longitude, or nearly 14°. In most of our maps, 
the eastern coast of Greenland, between Hold- 
with-Hope, in latitude 73i°, and the Arctic Cir¬ 
cle, or the latitude of 663°, trends towards the 
south-west, in an irregular continuous line, drawn 
apparently according to the fancy of the hydro¬ 
graph er. Whereas the true position of at least 
one-half of this interval, is very nearly north and 
south, and is pierced with a number of such wide 
and extensive inlets, as could not possibly have 
been overlooked, had the land ever been exa¬ 
mined. It may be proper here to acknowledge, 
however, that, in some of our nautical charts, the 
same continuity of the coast is not laid down; 
but then the errors, in the longitude and direction 
of the coast, are in these charts excessive. The 
only inlets that bear any relation to the reality 
are three fiords, laid down in the latitude of 
72° 15', which occupy a parallel not very different 
from that of Davy’s Sound, or Mountnorris In¬ 
let. Hut, as these are made to penetrate either 
north or north-west into a coast running east and 
west, instead of having a westerly direction in a 
coast that actually lies almost north and south, 
the difference becomes so great, that they cannot, I 
conceive, be considered as the same; especially as 
