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12 were detroyed, and Chritianity rooted out by the Savage Heathens. The modern Inhabitants of Wet Greenland, being (no doubt) the Offspring of the wild and barbarous Schrellings, have no certain Account to give us of this Matter; though they will tell you, that the old decayed dwelling Places and Villages, whoe Ruins are yet een, were inhabited formerly by a Nation quite different from theirs; and they alo affirm, what the ancient Hitories tell us, that their Ancetors made War with them, and detyoyed them. Now