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Rh and negative may be true, without the leat Contradiction. For Greenland can pas for no better than a dimal and pitiful Country, in Regard to the greatet Part of it, viz. all the Inland Country, which is perpetually covered with Ice and Snow, that never melts, and therefore of no Ue to Mankind; and as to the remaining Part, on the Sea Side, mot of it lies uncultivated and uninhabited: But here it may again be aid, that as to the firt Part, or the Inland Country, it is a Thing that's pat Remedy; but as to the lat Part, or the it may Manuring, o that it may recover its former Fertility; and thus it might be reckoned a good and profitable Country, provided the formerly inhabited Tracts of Land were anew ettled and peopled. I will forbear to mention to great Wealth and Rechnes, which lies hidden in the Greenland Seas, and can never be exhauted.

From the Land I will go to the Inhabitants, which every body will think more wretched