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8 Part or Province of it hould lie buried in eternal Oblivion, ueles to Mankind. And that Greenland by uch means has been dicovered and inhabited by our old Norwegians and Icelanders, we are fully informed of, by the Annals of Iceland; where we read, that the brave and valiant Erick Raude (or Red) who was the firt Dicoverer of this Country, after he in Company with everal other Icelanders, in the Year of our Lord 982. by meer Cauality fell in with the Land, and had taken a Survey of its preent State, he returned to Iceland the next Year 983; poke much in Commendation of the Land, calling it the Greenland, by which he peruaded many of his Countrymen to follow him thither, in order to find out Places fit for dwelling, and to ettle there. They no ooner

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