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Rh neceary for that Purpoe; both Proviion and Ammunition, as well as Houes made of Timber, ready to be erected in that Country. But this great Deign micarried, the Ship being taken by the French and brought into Dunkirk.

Thus, for a long while it eemed, that all Thought of Greenland was laid aide, until the Year 1721; when after many Invitations, and Projects propoed by me to the Greenland Company at Bergen in Norway, approved and authoried by his late Majety Frederick the IVth of glorious Memory, the Company thereupon reolved not only to end Ships, but alo to ettle a Colony in Greenland in the 64th Degree, when I went over with my whole Family, and remained there 15 Years. During my Stay I endeavoured to get all the Intelligence that could be procured both by Sea and Land of the preent State of the Country, and did not loe my Labour; for I found ome Places that formerly were inhabited by the old Norwe- Rh