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(18 1861 Sept 1st + [[symbol: Cross]] 15th Enc. 24th Day Out "Falls" of this beautiful river by the estuary of wh. we have 15th Enc. twice. The scene as I stand upon the Look-around point by the Falls is so grand to me. As I look around & behold the green pastures, plains & meadows that surround me I feel like those old Ice-landers who visiting the Continent West of them. I feel to exclaim [[underlined]] "This is Green land! [[/underlined]] But as this title has been given to land not half so deserving, I feel to affix to this quite & as significant a name - one particularly deserving to a distinguished citizen of the U.S. as can be - therefore I give it the Name of [[underlined]] Greenwood's Land. [[/underlined]] This in honor of Miles Greenwood of Cincinnati, Ohio. I think no one, not even an English Geographer, will question my right to title this land at the Head of [[end page]] [[start page]] (19 1861 Sept 1 + [[symbol: Cross]] 15th Enc. 24th Day Out Frobisher Bay, as it has been [[underlined]] supposed [[/underlined]] for near Three Centuries that Frobisher's Discovery was a Strait! I have now discovered & determined that it is a Bay terminating in Long. W. of Greenwich 69°-02' Lat. N. 63°-45' The tide flows up the river (by our 15th Enc.) one & 1/2 miles to the Falls. At ebb tide, from a point a few hundred fathoms below Falls on Cascade, this river is of unbroken surface flowing hence to Bay proper (distance [[space]] miles, listlessly & near all the distance between banks, almost perpendicular, of Fine Sand. At full tide, at least during high tides Full & Change of Moon, the largest class of vessels that is used to navigate in Northern Seas, might with safety [[underlined]] if kept within the River Channel [[/underlined]] be taken as high up as the Falls. This channel of wh. I write