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The face of the coast of Greenland is
nowfound to front hte north. The shore
line so long a blank upon our maps now
runs to the E. and W. (From E 20º N to W 20ºS)
and the enormous glacier which throws
its icy barrier to the North is probably
the only separation between ourselves and
the Atlantic Ocean.

The probability of this most inte=
=resting result does not rest upon mere
supposition but direct data disclosed
by our observations. The trend of the
coast as delineated by us--and the
trend of the Eastern Shore--as dis=
closed by Scoresby and Sabine (x1) would,
if their lines were produced, most in
Lat 82º -- but one hundred and twenty
miles from the furthest point reached by
Messrs. McGeary & Bonsall!! In fact
our parties penetrated so far to the East
that they were but 210 miles from the
axis of the peninsula of Greenland and
meridian of Cape Farewell.

The terminating barrier to
all further penetration--the Great Glacier
--is of high physical interest. As an
ice growth it is unique (alone) and if
we except some of our ^most^ active volcanoes it
it is the ^grandest &^ most imposing exhibition of
dynamic force ever witnessed
upon our globe.

(x1) I discard the doubtful derminations of
whalers & Dutch navigators. Scoresby gives
the E. Greenland Coast above [left empty] and Sabine
at the Pendulum Id.s in Lat [left empty] thus
affording to geographers reliable authority for
the final direction of shore line as laid down
in the Admiral and other Charts.

K.