1786. ( 329 ) 



CAPTAIN (now Admiral) lowenorn, lieute- 

 nant EGEDE AND LIEUTENANT ROTHE. 



1786 r/;2(/ 1787. 



The King of Denmark, at the recommendation 

 of Bishop Egede, (son of the missionary, Hans 

 Egede, who had taken him, when a child, into 

 Greenland,) fitted out an expedition in the year 

 1786, for the purpose of re-discovering the eastern 

 coast of Greenland, the command of which was 

 given to Captain Lowenorn. The Bishop was 

 persuaded that the long lost colony on this coast 

 would be found to exist, or to have existed, in 

 about the same parallel of latitude with the central 

 part of the western coast of Iceland; that the 

 distance between them was only about a hundred 

 and eighty miles; and that midway the two coasts, 

 or at least the summits of the mountains, are 

 visible at the same time; that this coast of Green- 

 land fwhich is supposed to be the part anciently 

 inhabited by the Danes) would be found to ex- 

 tend to the distance of three hundred miles to the 

 south-west, or south-south-west of Herjolfsnes, and 

 to continue in that direction as far as Cape Farewell. 

 These opinions, however, of the Bishop, have 

 since been attempted to be set aside in a treatise of 

 Mr. Eggers, who has endeavoured to prove that the 

 part of Greenland anciently discovered, and by 

 some supposed to be lost, is in fact the district 



