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FOOTNOTES
[1] Névé is the upper portion of a glacier, the top layers of which are more nearly in the condition of snow, and in the whole of which much air is mingled with the ice. It is rather frozen snow than ice.
[2] Dr Rink gives a list of 25 discharging glaciers. Of these, beginning from the south, the principal ones are:
- (1) Sermilik (near Cape Farewell).
- (2) Narsalik.
- (3) Godthaab.
- (4) Jacobshavn.
- (5) Jasiusak (into the Waigat).
- (6) Omenak Fjord.
- (7) Stor Kangerdlugsuatsiak.
- (8) Upernivik.
[3] It takes a very long time for lichens to form. The bones of the ptarmigan which Sir Edward Barry and his party had eaten on Melville Island in 1820 were clean and free from any growth when found 30 years afterwards.