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Rh be had of that Country's State, as may be een in Pontanus and Claudius Lycander.

The ancient Hitorians divide Greenland into two Parts or Ditricts, called Wet Bygd, and Eat Bygd. As to the Wet Ditrict, which is aid to have contained four Parihes, and 100 Villages, all we find in the ancient Hitories, amounts to this, viz. That in the 14th Century it was orely infeted by a wild Nation called Schrellings, and laid o wate, that when the Inhabitants of the Eatern Ditrict came to the Aitance of the Chritians, and to expel the barbarous Nation of the Schrellings, who were fallen upon the Chritians, they found to their great Atonihment the Province quite emptied of its Inhabitants, and nothing remaining but ome Cattle and Flocks of Sheep, traying wild and unguarded round about the Fields and Meadows; whereof they killed a good Number, which they brought home with them in their Ships. By which it appears, that the Norway Chritians in the Wetern Ditrict were