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Rh Notwithtanding which, what concerns St. Thomas's Convent in particular, is confes'd, and confirm'd by the old Hitories of Greenland. Nicolas Zenetur, a Venetian by Birth, who erved the King of Denmark in the Quality of a Sea Captain, is aid by chance to have been driven upon the Coat of Greenland in the Year 1380; and to have een the me Dominican Convent. His Relation is alledged by Kircherus in the following Words: "Here is alo a Dominican Convent to be een, dedicated to St. Thomas, in whoe Neighbourhood there is a Vulcano of a Mountain that pews Fire, and at the Foot thereof a Well of Water. This hot Water is not only conveyed by Pipes into the Convent, and through all the Cells of the Friars, to keep them warm, as with us the Rooms are heated by Stoves of  or other Fuel; but here they alo boil and bake their Meat and Bread with the ame. This Vulcano, or firey Mountain, throws out uch a Quantity of  that it hath furnihed Rh