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Rh poed by Biorno of Skaraa within thee 30 Years.

The ame Author furthermore informs us, that in Iceland there has often been found cattered here and there on the Sea Shore, old broken Pieces of which were parts of the Ribs of Boats, which on the Side they were tack'd together, were pated with a Sort of Pitch or Glue made of the Blubber of Seals; now it tands confes'd, that this kind of Glue is no where made Ue of, but only in Greenland. And a Boat of this Make was in the Year 1625 found thrown up, upon a Point of Land near the Structure of which was very artificial, joined together with wooden Nails, not unlike that in which Amund Katenrazius, in the Year 1189, in Company with 12 Men cros'd over from Greenland to Iceland; which Boat was likewie tack'd together with wooden Nails, and the Sinews of Animals. The ame Hitorian in his Book de Novitiis Groenlandorum Indiciis tells us, that ome Rh