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EXTRACT OF A JOURNAL [APP. N° V. 
No. V. 
JOURNAL of PROCEEDINGS on Board of 
the Hercules of Aberdeen, Captain Thomas 
Fajrburn, on the East Coast of West Green¬ 
land, from the 22d of August, to the lltli of 
September 1822. 
The following narrative is taken, with little more than 
a few verbal alterations, from a communication by Mr 
Fairburn. It is particularly interesting to the whale- 
fisher. It gives an account of the capture of two whales 
at a very late season of the year, and includes some import¬ 
ant observations, strikingly corroborative of my remarks on 
the dangerous nature of the eastern coast of Greenland, as 
a fishing station, at the end of Summer. It also proves, what 
I indeed fully expected, that the packing of the ice upon the 
coast at this season, took place in other parallels than those 
to which my observations extended. 
After many unsuccessful searches for fish, between the 
latitude of 80° 20' N. and the parallel of Jan Mayen 
Island, where I was on the 22d of July, with a clean ship, 
and not a fish to be seen, I was determined, God willing, 
to proceed to the north into Lat. 74°, and there go in with 
the land, where I had seen fish late in the season in 1820. 
Hence I proceeded to the north and west, as fast as cir¬ 
cumstances would admit. 
