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Rh confirms me in my Opinion; for although an incredible Quantity of driven Ice yearly comes from Spitzbergen or New Greenland, along this Coat, and paes by the States Promontory; which hinders the approaching of Ships, as far as the Ice tretches, where about the bet Part of the Norwegian Colonies were ettled; yet there have been found Breaks and open Sea near the Shore, through which Boats and maller Veels may pas: And according to the Relation of the Greenlanders, as well as agreeably to my own Experience, the Current, that comes out of the Bays and Inlets, always running along the Shore, hinders the Ice from adhering to the Land, and keeps it at a Ditance from the Shore: By which means the Greenlanders at certain times, without any Hindrance, have pat and repaed part of this Coat in their  (o they call their large Boats) though they have not been o far as where the old  had their Settlement; of which no Doubt there are till ome Ruins to be Rh