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Rh himelf in the Sun. The larget Seals are from five to eight Foot in Length, their Fat yields better than that of any other Fih. This is the mot common of all the Sea Animals in Greenland; and contributes the mot to the ubiting and maintaining of the Inhabitants, who feed upon the Fleh of it, and cloath themelves with the Skin, which likewie erves them for the covering of their Boats and Tents: The Fat is their Fuel, which they burn in their Lamps, and alo boil their Victuals with.

As for other Sea Monters and wonderful Animals, we find in Tormoder's Hitory of Greenland, mention made of three Sorts of Monters, where he quotes a Book, called Speculum Regale Iclandicum, or the  from whence he borrows what he relates. But none of Rh