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176 briker than at preent, and much more profitable; for foreign Traders flocking thither in great Numbers, have o overtock'd them with Goods, and underold one another, to draw the Natives to them from others, that the Trade is coniderably lackened and fallen. Yet I trut, that, if we once became Maters of this Trade, as it in Jutice belongs to us, by the Right the King of Denmark lawfully claims to thee Countries as much as to any Kingdom or Province ubject to him; I trut, that, with this Provio, the Trade to Greenland would provde as profitable, as any other whatoever. Which has been evidenced not long ago; when by his Majety's pecial Order Foreign Trade has been prohibited within a certain Ditance on each Side of the Colonies. For if the landing of ome Ships with Fih and Train from and others of Fih, Train,  and Butter from Iceland and Fero bring to the Traders coniderable Profit: Who would Quetion, but the ame or better Advantage may be expected from the importing Quantities of  Whale- Bones,