GREEN LAND

an extensive territory i} lying entirely within the es re nn | Itis probably an island, the area 3 | being 500,000 — miles, about 59,000 of i which are under Danish control. The 2 | interior is covered with an immense icee | sheet, but on the cast and west coasts are e| Danish and beg Ae aa The }|} exporta are skins, cryolite, a; preiesg Racin soda and alum — || obtained. In tho le exposed parts a stunted birches and alders grow, and {| edible berries are plentifal in eammer; e | population 12,000, chiefly Eskimos. t| [s. 161]