PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 45 have the highest degree of education. The landing-places on Greenland require to be selected with great care, and after much investigation. It is proposed to land on the east coast, in one of the many bays south of latitude 61 deg. north, Prince Christian Sound, and on the west coast near or south of Julianshaab, con- necting the two with a line across Greenland. The bays penetrate to the interior ten, twenty, or thirty miles, and some of them never freeze, nor does the ice from the sea go up them but a few miles. They are very deep, and beyond the depth of icebergs; the bottoms are of mud and sand. The character of the bays on the two coasts are much the same, and the Arctic current does not approach the coast on either side. From the sea into these bays the water is deep in valleys, far below the reach of the greatest iceberg. To make the selection of the proper bays for the landings of the cables the fullest information as to the depth of water from the sea, and the localities of the meandering submarine valleys from the deep sea to the landing places on shores, will he required. Some of the inlets bring out ice, but the most of them do not; many of them are ten miles wide. As to Labrador, Hamilton inlet affords all the desired advantages. This inlet runs interior about 140 miles, and at the mouth of the bay it is thirty miles wide. The water is deep, and the bottom is sand. At its mouth there are deep trenches or valleys to sea, and a cable laid therein would never be disturbed by the ice. Above and below Hamilton Inlet there are shoals or reefs, some thirty miles from the coast, and many icebergs ground on them. After they melt or break to pieces they pass over and beyond the mouth of the inlet. They never ground at the mouth, nor do they enter into the inlet. Icebergs.—The landings on the Faroe Islands and Iceland will never be disturbed by ice. They are open ports, and vessels can go and come from them at all seasons of the year. The coasts of Greenland and Labrador are beset with much ice. The east coast of Greenland is but little settled. The inhabitants trade with the colony near Cape Farewell, and they go and return from time to time in the skin boats. The Arctic or Spitzbergen current, with the floe ice, does not approach the coast, and much of the time that the floe ice runs between Greenland and Iceland the water near the coast is free from ice. The floe ice on the east coast may be seen in more or less quantities in the months of February, March, April, May, and part of June. Sometimes it appears in the last days of January, and occasionally disappears in May. The coast or berg ice may be seen throughout the year. On the east coast neither the berg nor the floe ice penetrates the bays, and a cable laid

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