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36 gians, on the wetern Shore. Which Expedition I have lately treated of in another Treatie, and et out in all its Circumtances, and with all the Difficulties it has laboured under: Wherefore I think it needs not to be here repeated.

But, whereas my main Drift and Endeavour has been all along chiefly to dicover the Eatern Ditrict of Greenland, which always was reckoned the bet of our ancient Colonies; accordingly I received from the above mentioned Greenland Company at Bergen a Letter in the Year 1723, in which I was told, that it was his Majety's Pleaure, that the Eat Ditrict might likewie be viited and covered. Which the better to effectuate, I took the Reolution to make this Voyage in Peron: And accordinly I coated it Southwards, as far as to the States Promontory, looking out for the Strait of Forbiher, which would have been my hortet way, according to thoe Carts, which lay the aid Strait down in this Place; but uch