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208 In their atronomical Sytem, the Heaven turns about upon the Point ofa huge Rock. The Snow, according to their Fancy, is the Blood of the Dead, on account that it turns reddih if you keep it in the Mouth. The Rain comes from a Ditch or Weer above in Heaven; when it overflows there, it Rains here below.

They have no Calendar or Almanacks, nor do they compute or meaure the Time by Weeks or Years, but only by Months; beginning their Computation frum the Sun's firt riing above their Horizon in the Winter; from whence they tell the Month, for to know exactly the Seaon, in which every ort of Fihes, Sea Animals, or Birds eek the Land; according to which they order their Buines.

As nonenical now as thee Notions of the Greenlanders are (as they in reality are) yet they come hort of the Egyptian King Ptolomys Infatuation, who by the loathome Flattery of his Atronomers was peruaded that his Queen Berenices Head of Hair was 2