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west to Greenland. These courses, it is clear, 
must bring the navigator to the eastern coast, if 
he reached the coast at all, whatever be the dis- 
tances sailed. And other authors, both Ice¬ 
landic and Danish, represent the time required 
for reaching the colonies as such, when compared 
with the length given to the voyage from Nor¬ 
way to Iceland, that, to accomplish the distance 
round Cape Farewell, Eggers is obliged to take 
into account the currents running towards the 
south-west; but these, it should seem, if calcula¬ 
ted at their known rate, will by no means make 
up the required distance. 
Hence, I conceive, that there is yet no suffi¬ 
cient ground for rejecting the opinion of Tor feus, 
Crantz, and various other authors, as to the dis¬ 
tribution of the colonies on both sides of Cape 
Farewell,—as well on the eastern as on the wes¬ 
tern coast. 
From a list of the Bishops of Greenland, as 
given by Torfeus and Holberg, it appears that 
seventeen were sent out to the colonics in regular 
succession, the last of whom, Andrew, embarked 
