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man might be a Native of that Country ,who per- 

 haps, was drove farther than ordinary from the 

 fliore by blov^ing weather. The People of Hull 

 are firmly perfuaded that he was a Native of 

 Greenland : But if I rightly remember the State 

 of that forlorn Land, it has no other Inhabitants 

 than White Bears, with a few Deer, and fome 

 few Fowles : I have fince read M. Egedes ac* 

 count which fays, it is tolerably peopled in the 

 Parts towards the South. 



3. But let us travel away to the Coaft of A^br- 

 *wa)\ where we meet with a moil remarkable 

 place called by their Writers Mael-Stroo?n^ which 

 has ever very much puzzled the Learned World 

 to account for. It is a huge (monflrous) Hole or 

 Hiatus in the Sea, that is fcituate among fome 

 poor Illands ; and I fhall now endeavour to de- 

 fcribe it according to my befl information and 

 judgment. 



4. This Hiatus may be a Mile in Diameter, 

 and is very vifible when the Tide is at ebb. As 

 foon as the Water begins to flow again, the Tide 

 drives it into the Hiatus, with an incredible im« 

 petuofity and noife, together with the Fifhes and 

 every thing elfe that gets into its Stream along 

 with them, and continues to do fo till it is quite 

 full, which happens a little before the Water is 

 rifen to high Flood. It is well worth our ob- 

 fervation j That a little before, and a little after^ 



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