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Rh Bones, Hides, Fox and  which are of more Value than the Iceland or Feroe? And, if the Produce and Commodities of Greenland were formerly reckoned of that Importance, that they were deem'd ufficient to maintain the King's Table: Why not alo at preent? provided Greenland may by Settlements and Improvement retrieve its former Abundance, which is not impoible.

If the old Lands, formerly inhabited and manured by the Norway Colonies, were anew peopled with Men and Cattle; they would, without doubt, yield as much as either Iceland or Feroe, eeing there is as good as in thoe Ilands. I hall forbear to mention Salmon and as it eems at preent to be but of little or not Importance, epecially on the  though I am credibly informed by the Natives, that on the Souther Coat they catch abundance of fine large Cods. Yet this may be more than ufficiently compenated by the on the North, Rh