47. Midway between Orkney and Shetland.
48. Foula, the most westerly of the Shetlands, round in form, is 12 miles in circuit.
49. Esquimaux.
50. Far from coming from Newfoundland, this drift-wood is carried into the Arctic Ocean by the Yenisei and other large rivers of Siberia.
51. Contrary to the opinion of Mr. Weise, who insists that Friseland is Iceland, I am inclined to believe that the East coast of Greenland is meant.
52. Lieutenant Nansen's expedition across Greenland negatives this supposition, but the West coast is more habitable than the East.
53. Frobisher Bay: it is not a strait. Hall's Island is Hall's Peninsula.
54. twisted
55. Long. From Saxon sid. (See BEN JONSON, New Inn, v. 1.)
56. Raisins.