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18 Year ago, they found an Oar upon the Eatern Shore of Iceland, whereon thee Words were carvved in Runick Characters: Oft var ek dacedar ek dro dik, which ignifies, often was I tired, when I carried thee. Beides this, I find a Relation in a German Writer, whoe Name is Dithmarus Blefkenius, concerning a certain Monk, born in Greenland, who, as Companion to the Biop of the Place, in the Year 1546 made a Voyage into Norway, where he lived until the Year 1564, and where, the Author ays, he got acquainted and peronally convered with him. This Monk told him many trange and urprizing Things of a Dominican Convent in Greenland, called St. Thomas's Convent; to which his Parents ent him in his Youth to become a Monk of that Order. But the Truth of this Relation is very much quetioned, being together with everal others of Blefkenius's Relations refuted and gainaid by Arngrim in his Treatie intitled Anatome Blefkeniana. Blefkenius's Relation is nevertheles confirmed by everal other Authors. Eramus Eramus Francicus  Fran-