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•tions of Hall’s Inlet and Fleming’s Inlet, are 
strongly indicative of the insularity of Jameson’s 
Land. And there is seen to be a similar indica¬ 
tion, with regard to the insularity of the country 
of which Cape Brewster forms the eastern pro¬ 
montory, by the direction pursued by Scorcsby’s 
Sound and Knighton Bay. 
But in addition to this general structure of the 
land about the coast, there arc good reasons for 
believing that the whole country of Greenland is 
likewise a great compact archipelago. One argu¬ 
ment in support of this opinion, is the apparently 
-interminable extent of some of the inlets. It 
lias been shewn, (page 200. of this volume), that 
Scoresby’s Sound and Hall’s Inlet, penetrate at 
least to the depth of ninety miles towards the 
west. Now, on the opposite coast of Greenland, 
it is worthy of remark, there is a corresponding 
inlet (Jacob’s Bight) penetrating towards the east, 
the extent of which, to all appearance, is boundless. 
According to Sir Charles Giesecke, whose manu¬ 
script map I have been favoured with a sight 
of, Jacob’s Bight, lying nearly in the same par¬ 
allel as Scorcsby’s Sound, stretches about 150 
miles to the eastward, beyond the general line of 
the western coast; and there expands into an ap¬ 
parently interminable sea. The interior structure 
of this Bight, which is laid down in the compar- 
