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Rh ment; no fine Arts and Sciences, or the like; but only a Number of mean, wretched, and ignorant Gentiles, who live and improve the Land according to their low Capacity. I mut own that Greenland, in its preent State and Condition, compared with other Countries, is but very mean and poor, though not yet o depicable and wretched, but it may, uing Care and Indutry, not only richly maintain its own Inhabitants, but alo communicate to others out of the Remainder of its Products. As for the Land in itelf, it yields little or nothing, not being manured or cultivated, but lies altogether wate and untilled; nevertheles the Ancient Hitories and Accounts, yet extant, of the Land, make it appear, that it is not unfit for everal Products; and therefore I don't quetion, but it might retrieve the Los of its former Plenty and Fruitfulnes, houls it come to be 3