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40 een on this Eatern Shore. Furthermore I have been credibly informed by Dutch Seamen that frequent thee Seas, that everal of their Ships have at Times found the of Greenland cleared of the Ice, as far as the 62d Degree; and they had tarried ome time among the out Rocks on that Coat, where they carried on a profitable Trade with the Savages. And I my elf in my Return from Greenland homewards in the Year 1736. found it to be o, when we paed the States Promontory and Cape Farewell; and tood in near the Shore, where at that Time there was no Ice to be een, which otherwie is very uncommon. But as this happens o eldom, it is very uncertain and unafe for any Ship, to venture o far up under the Eatern Shore. But, as I oberved a little before, it is more afe and practicable to coat it from the Promontory along the Shore in mall Veels; epecially if there be a Lodge erected in the Latitude of between 60 and 61 Degrees: and it would be till more convenient, if there