468 STRUCTURE OF GREENLAND; [APP. N°VIII. 
south-eastern arm is surrounded by high mountains. The 
natives have no tradition with respect to this bay. There 
is another bay, which I could not investigate to its bottom, 
on account of the immense masses of ice that were setting 
out, and which is called by the natives Ikek and Ikaresak 
{sound). It runs between Karsarsuk and Kingitok, and 
its length is from Karsarsuk to its end about fifteen Ger¬ 
man miles: it is situated in 72° 48', and the sea, at its 
entrance, is covered by numerous islands. All the natives 
living in this neighbourhood, assured me unanimously, that 
there had been a passage formerly to the other side of the 
land. They told me also, that they were afraid, that, with 
heavy north-easterly gales, the ice would go oft* again, and 
that the people from the other side, whom they describe as 
barbarians, would come over and kill them. They stated, 
that, from time to time, carcasses of whales, which had been 
killed on the other side, pieces of wood, and fragments of 
utensils, were to be seen driving out of this bay. The 
currents set out of it in the same manner as in Icy Bay •. 
The most northern bay which I had the good fortune 
to examine, stretches towards the north-west, and is bound¬ 
ed on the north-east and south-east (two different arms) by 
immense glaciers. It is situated in 75° 10’, and the land 
around it is rather low. The depth of the sea near the 
glaciers in Icy Bay exceeds 300 fathoms, which may be 
easily ascertained bv calculating the height of the floating 
ice-mountains above the surface of the sea. In Cornelius 
Bay, I measured the depth with a whale-line, and found it 
150 fathoms. 
• The outset from these bays, and the inset on the western side of Ihe 
country, arc almost demonstrative of the complete perforation of Greenland 
by inlets or firths, and of its insular structure.—(Sec page 32D). 
