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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
tempt to proceed along a lee-sliore under such cir¬ 
cumstances. We therefore stood off and on du¬ 
ring the night. 
About midnight we had thunder and lightning, 
and very hard squalls, with intervals of moderate 
weather. The squalls coming on without warn¬ 
ing, the jib, which was imprudently set, was split 
from head to foot. 
At day-light, the weather looking somewhat 
better, we made a stretch to the south-westward, 
and passed betwixt the Flannen Islands and Gal- 
len Head at 8 a. m. The swell, however, and scant 
wind setting us rapidly towards the eastern land, 
we tacked at 11 a. m., and stood off, the sea then 
breaking terrifically on this “ iron-bound shore.” 
We weathered the Flannen Islands in the even¬ 
ing, and passed within a mile of them. Am ong 
this group, there is only one that is covered with 
herbage, as far as I could perceive, and of sufficient 
importance to be entitled to the name of an island. 
I his is about a quarter of a mile in diameter. 
Another, nearly of the same size, but apparently 
quite barren, lies about half a league from it. The 
rest are mere rocks, rising very little above the 
surface of the water; but the larger islets, fortu¬ 
nately for the navigator, are so considerably ele¬ 
vated, that they may be seen five or six leagues from 
a ship’s deck. As I did not perceive any broken 
