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although it is not yet /mown lohcthcr it be an island, or a con- 

 tinent, m' a group of islands. He sags that it is the map of 

 Old Greenland ; he might say of the Old and of the New, for 

 no other is known ; and that which toe know ought rather to 

 he called New than Old. The reason is, that ivhilst Old 

 Greenland has certainly heen placed in some part of the land 

 here described, and to the west of Iceland, yet they have never 

 been able to determine its locality, which is not now known 

 even by the Norwegians, although their fathers discovered it 

 and inhabited it for whole centuries ; as will be more parti- 

 cularly shown in this history. 



That which is here represented of the junction of Cape 

 Fareivell with the Christian Strait and the Christian Sea and 

 the Port of MuncUs Winter, has been taken from a map that 

 Captain Munck caused to be constructed on his voyage, and 

 which is reprinted with his narrative. I have followed it the 

 more icillingly that it agrees with the map of Captain Hud- 

 son himself, who first discovered this strait and sea, which 

 31. Chapelain, a man ivhose courtesy equals his research, lent 

 me from his own cabinet, that I might compare it at leisure 

 with Captain MuncMs map. 



I dare not assert that all the coast of the Christian Sea, 

 as ivell as the JVest Coast as here described, between Davis 

 Gulf and the Port of Munck'' s Winter, is part of Greenland, 

 because it may be that there is some considerable river or 

 some strait ivhich I do not know of, that intersects this land 

 and separates Greenland from America. What renders me 

 more undecided upon this 'point is, that I have not heard in 

 Denmark that all this coast was part of Greenland, as I have 

 heard it stated of all the north-east coast between Cape Fare- 

 well and Spitzbergcn. I leave the solution of this doubt to 

 those icho will knoio more about it from English and Dutch 

 narratives, as my present design is only to write xohat I have 

 learned of this land from Danish books and from conversa- 

 tions that I have had in Denmark. 



