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6 Iceland, they continued to pread themelves all along the Shore and in the Bays; as far as Baal's River, where they did top; and where we find many Ruins of the old Norwegian Edifices. And whereas I myelf have lately met with o many Stone Buildings, o far to the South, I think my Concluion is good, that the Land upon which thee Houes tand, is no particular Iland, but contiguous to the Main. It is therefore very reaonable to believe, that whereas the Ancients took Notice of, and o accurately decribed, all thoe Bays and Ilands that were inhabited; they would not have paed by in Silence thee two large Ilans, whereupon uch tately Buildings were erected. And for this Reaon I have hereto joined a new Map or Delineation of Greenland, to hew the Contiguounes of the Eat and Wet Greenland, agreeably to other new Carts of Thermoder and others; which I follow as far as I find them not contradictory to the Decription of the Ancients, and to my own Experience.