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Rh Francius, in his Book called Eat and Wet India State Garden, in a Place, where he treats of Greenland, tells us, that a Captian of a Danih Ship, by Name Jacob Hall, being ordered by the King his Mater to undertake a Voyage to Greenland, he touched firt at Iceland, where he from the King's Lieutenant got Intelligence of Greenland, which before was unknown to him. And that he might the more fully be informed of every thing relating to the matter, a certain Monk was ent for, to intruct him herein, who was aid to be a Native of Greenland; of whom the aid Jacob Hall, in his hort Decription, gives the following Account, according to our Author Eramus Francicus. "There has formerly been a Convent (ays he) in Iceland, call'd Helgafield, or Holy Mountain, in which, though it was decay'd, lived a certain Friar, Native of Greenland, with a broad and tawny Face. This Friar was ent for by the King's Lieutenant in the Preence of Jacob Hall, who wanted to be informed Rh