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26 States Promontory, with uch Violence and Rapidity, that it often tops a Ship under full Sail, o that the Ship can make but little or no Way at all againt it. The Caue by others aigned for this trange Effect is the Fih Remora, which the Northlanders call Kracken is nothing but a fabulous Story of the too credulous Antients, and labours under no les Aburdities than the former Opinion, that Rocks of Loadtone, laying on the Bottom of the Sea, can tay the Coure of a Ship that ails on the Surface of it.

In the ame Year that Mogens Heinon went upon the Greenland Dicovery, the Englih Hitories inform us, that Captain Martin Forbiher, an Englihman, was by the glorious Queen Elizabeth ent upon the ame Errand. This Adventurer got Sight of the Land, but being partly hindred by the Ice, which adhered to it, and partly by the Shortnes of the Winter Days (for it was late in the Year) he could not approach it, and o returned to England again. Next Year