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of Cape Farewell, nothing to the eastward of the 
Cape was accomplished. One of the ruins met 
with by Egcd£, between the 60th and 61st de¬ 
gree of latitude, was that of a church fifty feet 
long, and twenty broad, in the clear, and the walls 
six feet thick. 
Besides the examinations respecting the lost 
colonies by the missionaries, the Greenland tra¬ 
ding companies of Denmark and Norway have 
made several unsuccessful attempts to accomplish 
the same object. 
Another expedition for the recovery of lost 
Greenland remains only to be mentioned. Cap¬ 
tain Lowenom and Lieutenant Egede were sent 
out from Copenhagen on this design, in the year 
1786. They made several trials to reacli the 
coast, about the parallel of 65°, without being 
able to approach nearer than about fifty miles, 
on account of ice. Lowenom returned to Den¬ 
mark the same summer, and Egedd to Iceland to 
refit. The latter then made another attempt, 
in the month of August, when he reached within 
ten miles of the land, and then proceeded to Ice- 
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