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Rh believe this, becaue the farther you go Northwards in the aid Strait, the lower is the Land; contrary to what we oberve, where it borders on the Seas or main Ocean, it never wants lofty Promontories. It has been the commonly received Opinion, of a long tanding, that Greenland borders upon the Aiatic Tartary, and Mocovia on the ; what confirms them in this Notion is an old Story they give Credit to, that a certain Harrald Goat did travel by Land, over Mountains and Rocks, from Greenland to Norway, bringing along with him a of whoe Milk he lived on the Journey; by which he got the Surname of Harrald Goat. Furthermore, the ancient Greenland Chritians in their Chro- Rh