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Ij changs their places of abode, of their own 

 Ij accord. 



|| A CAPTAIN of a fhip who had been in 

 j 'Greenland, alTerted from his own experi- 

 I ence, that on paffing the feventieth deg. 

 I of north lat. the fummer heat was there 

 much greater, than it is below that degree. 

 From hence he concluded, that the fum- 

 mer heat at the pole itfelf, muft be ftill 

 more exceffive, fmce the fun fhines there 

 for fuch a long fpace of time, without ever 

 fetting. The fame account with fimilar 

 confequences drawn from thence, Mr. 

 Franklin had heard of the fhip captains in 

 Bojion, who had failed to the moft northern 

 parts of this hemifphere. But flill more 

 aftonifhing is the account he got from cap- 

 tain Henry Atkins, who ftill lives at Bojion, 

 He had for fome time been upon the fifli- 

 ery along the coafts of New England. But 

 not catching as much as he wifhed, he 

 failed north, as far as Greenland. At lafl he 

 went fo far, that he difcovered people, who 

 had never feen Europeans before (and what 

 is more aftonifhing) who had no idea of the 

 ufe of fire, which they had never employed ; 

 and if they had known it, they could have 

 made no ufe of their knowledge, as there 

 were no trees in the country. But they eat 

 t;he birds and firti which they caught quite 

 T 4 raw. 



