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24 Eatern Colonies, is without [sic]aay Ground or Reaon; becaue the Commerce was carried into Greenland until the Year 1406; and in 1540 that Colony was till ubiting. If therefore this Ditrict be detitute or bereft of its old Inhabitants: 'tis not unlike, they have undergone the ame Fatality as the Wetern ones, being detroyed by the Barbarity of the Savage Schrellingers.

A whole Century paed from the Ceation of all Commerce and Navigation between Norway and Greenland, till new Adventurers began to apply themelves to the Dicovery of the Eatern Ditrict. The firt of thoe who took this Affair to Heart was Erick Walkendorff, of Drontheim, who was reolved, at his own Charge, to fit out Ships for this Purpoe, but was topt in this pious Deign by King Chritian the Second, whoe Digrace he had Chritian the Second, whoe Digrace he had incurr'd. The next was King Frederick the Firt, whoe Mind (as it is reported, was bent upon the aid Expedition, but was never