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Rh Country; where the firt Danih Lodge was ettled in the Year 1721. In all you will find laid down Forbiher's Strait and , which, they pretend, form two large Ilands, adjacent to the  which, I think, are not to be found, at leat, not upon the Coat of Greenland; for I cou'd not meet with any thing like it, in the Voyage I undertook in the Year 1723 Southward, going upon Dicoveries; though I went as far as to 60 Degrees that Way: But at preent the newer Carts lay them down, the Northern Strait in 63, and the Southern in 62 Degrees. Some of the Ancients, which Thormoder follows in his Greenlandd Hitory, place them between 61 and 60 Degrees. So that the Carts differ mightily in this Particular. Beides this, there is not a Word or a Syllable mention'd in our ancient Records of Greenland of the aforeaid two Straits and large Ilands: They only inform us, that after the old Norwegians and Icelanders had began to ettle Colonies on the Eat Side of Greenland, over againt Rh