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Its Weft Side is known to 70 Degrees Latitude. If 
Greenland is an Ifland, or joined to other Countries, 
it is not known for a Certainty, but probabiy joins 
to America on the North- weft Side : For between 
America and Greenland , ftretches the Fretum , or 
Bay, called in the Sea-Charts Davis’s Streights , 
which is navigated by them and other Nations on 
Account of the Whalc-fifhery, but to the Bottom of 
this Sound no Ship has ever been. 
Greenland is an high rocky Country, which is 
always covered with Ice and Snow, which never 
thaws except near the Sea. The highcft Land can be 
feen 80 Englijlo Miles from the Sea. The whole 
Coaft is fortified with large and fmall Iflands. It has 
leveral Firths or Rivers, which run a long Way within 
Land 5 among!! which is Baal’s River, where the fir ft 
Danifh Colony was fixed in 1721. which runs So 
Miles within Land. That in all Sea-Charts called 
For bilker s-Str eight , alfo Baer-Sound , which are faid 
to make Two large IQands at a Diftance from the 
main Land ? but, in Reality, I did not find them fo. 
Cap. II. Colonies and Converfion , to p. 23. 
Greenland was firft difcovered by the Norwegians 
and Icelanders ; and the brave Raude, who firft dif- 
covered it in 982. praifed it, and perfuaded feveral 
of his Countrymen to inhabit it 5 and at the Inftance 
of Oluf Tryggefon , firft Chriftian King in Norway , 
carried a Prieft with him, who taught and baptized 
all the Inhabitants? and from time to time Green- 
land multiplied into new Colonies, many Churches 
and Abbeys were built, Bifhops and other Teachers 
provided for : But the Norwegians were not the firft 
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