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Rh never put in Execution. Chritian the Third, (as Lycander relates) ent everal Ships with the ame Deign, but without making any Dicovery. Frederick the IId ucceeded his Royal Father as well in the Government, as in his good Deign about Greenland; on which Errand he ent Mogens Heinon, a renowned Seaman in thoe Days. This Adventurer, after he had gone through many Difficulties and Dangers of Storms and Ice, got Sight of the Land, but could not approach it; whereupon he returned home again, and pretended, that he might have got on Shore, if his Ship had not been top't in the midt of its Coure by ome Loadtone Rocks hidden in the Sea, that he could not proceed, thoough he had a very favourable and trong Gale of Wind, and no Ice to hinder him; which frightened him and made him ail back again to Denmark. But the true Loadtone Rocks, in my Opinion, was the terrible Fright he was in of not getting afe through the dreadful Ice Mountains, which threatened him, or ele the trong Current, which always runs along the States