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Facts About Greenland

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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A leeture on Greenland was given i London not ayo by Clements Mark ham. I lis history of the early discov eries included the voyage of Eric th Eed. Hall was the first Englishman wh laid his bones on the shore of Green land. In 1721 Hans Egede, the apostle o: the Esquimaux, landed in Groenland. It has been found lmpossible to pene trate for any distunce into the vast in terior. The natives believe it to be in habited by enorrnous and malignunt be ings. It is 320,000 square miles in extent the whole being a mass of ice. A Dan ish pofessor in 1820 made his way fo thirty miles inland and described th scène he saw. There is aothingf but a white worlc supporting a blue vault. From far be lovv one's feet there comes the moaning noise, the voice of rivers flowing far be neath. Occasionally there are loud reports from the opening of the cleft, a vast mass of water pierces its way in the ice down to the underlying granite itsel for thonaanda of feet. At thirty miles from the coast the height dbove the sea was 2,200 feet and the ice ivas still rising. A wonderful sig-ht is that of the colossal rivers, (leep and broad, which flow between tall blue banks, and pour at the end of their eourse down a cleft with a nn'ghty cascade, which is conspicuous from a distance from a cloud of mist which always hangs above it. On the strips of the land near the coast the Greenland flora, though gcanty, is very pleasant to the eye. Vegetation covers the ground in thick masses, forming turf in the level places, while it filis the chinks and craanies of the rocks and creeps over the surface of the stone, giving a bright appearance to the land in summer.

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Ann Arbor Courier