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...Wycoff has given $2000 to the geological department of Cornell University, for the purpose of a scientific expedition to Greenland the coming summer. The expedition, which will be made up of Cornell men is to accompany Lieutenant Peary. It will start early in July, and remain away all summer, probably going as far north as Cape York, visiting various places on the coast of Newfoundland, Greenland, Baffin's Land and Labrador...
...expedition will start from New York on June 25, immediately after the close of the college year. The course will lie along the Labrador coast to the west of Greenland, past the fjords and the Norse ruins to Melvill bay to the Peary party. Then the Kane, Hayes and Greeley winter quarters will be visited, and after a tour through Greenland the homeward trip will be begun, reaching New York about the middle of September...
...There are also several illuminated manuscripts, one of the "Order of the Passover" in Hebrew, and two or three of the "Officium Beatae Virginis et quaedam alia" and the first engraved map of the world, believed to be a copyright of the one made by Columbus in 1498, representing Greenland and America as part of Asia. Besides these there are some collections of very rare autographs and letters including one of John Milton...
...continually break off with a loud noise, and these icebergs cover the surrounding inlets. The motion of this mass was from 65 to 72 feet per day in places, and the whole moved at an average rate of 40 feet per day about the same as the Greenland glaciers. The erosion of these glaciers is very great. It is calculated that the sub-glacial streams lower a surface of 1,200 square miles-one-third of an inch each year...
...Bicycling in the proper seasons is a most healthful exercise and a very fascinating manner of progression, but in the winter it is entirely out of place, and seems like having picnics in January. If winter riding be practicable, the Columbia Bicycle Co. should immediately establish an agency in Greenland, and introduce their machine among the Esquimaux...