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34 they were brought from the Wetern Shore, near 's River, as ome of the Inhabitants, who are till living, had in freh Remembrance, telling me their Names, as they are laid down in the forementioned Journal.

The lat Adventurer, that was ent upon the Dicovery of Greenland, according to Torfæus in his Hitory of Greenland, was Captain Otto Axelon in the Year 1670, in the Reign of Chritian the Vth of glorious Memory. But what Succes this Adventurer met with, he leaves us to gues. Nevertheles we find in a Manucript Decription of Greenland, written by Arngrim Vidalin, Part III. Chap. 1, that his aid Majety did invite, and with great Privileges encourage Mr. George Tormúhlen Counellor of Commerce at Bergen, to fit out Ships for the aid Dicovery; whereupon the aid Counellor not only got ready Shipping well tored for uch an Expedition; but alo got together a Number of Paengers, who reolved to go and ettle in thoe Parts, whom he provided with all things neceary