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Notions the Greenlanders have of the Origin of heavenly Lights, as Sun, Moon, and Stars, are very nonenical; in that they pretend that they have formerly been o many of their Ancetors, who, on different Accounts, were lifted up to Heaven and became uch glorious Celetial Bodies.

Their illy Stories concerning this Matter have been related in the Continuation to the Greenland Memoirs, or Relations; but as this Book, very likely, may not come to the Hands of every Body, I hall hortly remember ome of them here. The Moon, as they will have it, has been a young Man,  called