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in relation to these, the reader perhaps will find undeservedly
neglected, as it reminds us of apparently the most marvellous
products of arctic nature, the floating icebergs. They are only
named in the Greenlandic, Labradorian and Central dialects, it
is questionable whether they have an adequate name in the
Mackenzie, and in the extreme western vocabularies none at
all was met with. The cause must simply be, that the
occurrence of icebergs is limited to Davis Strait, Baffin’s Bay and a
part of the northern Atlantic, stragglers occasionally slipping
into the sounds of the Central Regions. If really the original
Eskimo have immigrated from the west to the east, parting in
the Central Regions for Greenland and Labrador, they could
not have become acquainted with the icebergs before they
separated. The word for bergs is also quite different in
Greenland and Labrador, but of course this fact is too isolated and
uncertain for serving to support any such conclusion.
SAFE CONCLUSIONS TO BE DRAWN FROM THE FACTS
HERE STATED. If now we retrospectively examine what here
has been stated, at first it is possible, that more complete
vocabularies from the western dialects would have added
considerably to the number of words contained in our list,
especially as this material originally has been collected by explorers
without any idea of what could have been most desirable for
our research. If this be taken into consideration, our number
of identical names within the sphere of ideas we have
proposed to investigate, must be found to be somewhat
considerable. A comparison of the said names as we have given, with the
appended and more complete tables, will show, that certainly
difference is found respecting some objects still belonging to
those which were new to the original Eskimo settlers, but they
will prove to be of less importance. It also happens in several
such cases, that the true Greenlandic word has been discovered
as being used contemporaneously with the differing counterpart
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