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x quired: But having ince that Time got a fuller Light in thee Matters, partly by my own Obervations, and partly by thoe of my Son Paul Egede, who has been four Years Miionary in the Colony of Greenland, I have found it neceary to perfect and enlarge this little Work in Embryo, under the ame Title that it made its firt Appearance, with ome useful Additions, and with the Ornaments of divere Figures and Cuts of certain Animals, Fihes, Birds, Plants, and other natural Products of the Country, together with a  Map of the ame, that o the Reader may the better comprehend what he finds in this Sketch. Though Greenland be a Country of a vat Extent, yet it affords but a narrow Field for any Obervation or Remarks of Conequence; there being no trong or Towns to meet with; no  Polity or Civil Govern- ment;