22 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. heights. In the valleys we found considerable grass, and some wild vegetables, such as these samples (showing samples of the grass, about two feet long, and a vegetable stalk about three feet long). While in Greenland, anxious to see the worst, I took much care to study that strange and indescribable part of the earth’s surface and visited what is there called an ice-blink, that is, a place where the ice is forced from the interior into the fiord valley and breaks otf, forming icebergs. I could not see that there need be any fear from the ice coming from the interior down the fiords; but in order to understand the movement of the ice gene- rally, I travelled over some of it. In company with Mr. Hoyer, the Assistant-Governor at Julianshaab, and Mr. Putnam, my assistant from America, I ascended the mountain on the north side of the Sermitsialik fiord, near the ice-blink. It was about 2000 feet high, and the side mostly covered with grass. When we got on top we found a beautiful little lake, with a sandy beach. We found some little snow in the crevices between the rocks, and we had snow-balling, that we might say we had actually seen snow in Greenland ! We then travelled along the ridge or top of the mountain, which ran eastward; in doing this we continued to ascend, and after we had got to the ice, some five miles from the place we had reached the top of the mountain, we had perhaps attained another altitude of 1000 feet, or 3000 feet from the level of the sea. We then ascended the interior ice without any difficulty, and we travelled over it some few miles. To our right we saw the three virgin peaks, ascending high into the heavens, with patches of snow here and there whitening their black rocky forms. We bad no difficulty in walking over this ice. The crevices ran east and west, and we might have easily gone over the same track with a horse. We found some small pools of water, and some patches of earth, and we could not form any idea where that earth came from. Some of it is here before me, which any gentleman is at liberty to examine. If it came from the interior, it may be possible that there are ice-free lands in those unexplored regions, and the lost Greenlanders of the 14th century may yet inhabit them—where, perhaps, for the past five centuries, they have lived in prison-like solitude ! I have no idea how thick the ice was that we travelled over. Water was heard falling over the rocks, many feet beneath. We had ascended from the moment we got on to the ice, so that at the most eastern point that we reached it was possibly some 4000 feet thick. We were above the ranges of mountains between us and the Davis Strait, and we could see far over them to sea. I presume, too, that the fiords and the mountains run interior, but far beneath the ice, and if that country was free of ice, the mountains and fiords would be found in the interior much the same as those

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