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Greenlanders Ignorance of a Creator would make one believe they were Atheits, or rather Naturalits. For, when they have been aked from whence they thought that Heaven and Earth had their Origin, they have anwered, nothing, but that it had always been o. But if we conider, that they have ome Notion of the Immortality of Souls, and that there is another much happier Life after this; moreover, as they are addicted to different kinds of Supertition, and that they hold there is a Spiritual Being, which they call Torngaruk, to whom they acribe a upernatural Power, though not the Creation or the Production of Creatures, (of whoe Origin they Rh