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Rh dern Greenlanders, as they entertain no Correpondence with thoe Parts; either being hindered by the Ice, which renders them altogether inacceible; or ele for fear the Inhabitants of that Country might kill and devour them; for they repreent them as a cruel, barbarous and inhuman Nation, that detroy and eat all Foreigners that fall into their Hands. Yet this notwithtanding, if we may believe the Relation of thoe Adventurers, who have coated a great Part of the Eatern Shore; there is no other fort of Inhabitants found on this, than on the Wetern Side. But how it comes to pas, that the Eatern Ditrict, which was o well ettled with Norway and Iceland Colonies, that it contained 12 large Parihes, and 190 Villages, beides one Bihop's See and two Convents, and flourihed till the Year 1540; at lat has been detroyed and laid wate, is what I can't conceive. That ome are of Opinion, that the black Plague, o call'd, which ravaged the Northern Countries in the Year 1348, alo reach'd Greenland, and made its Havock among its Rh