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Rh there could be a Way and Means found likewie to place a Lodge on the Eatern Shore in the ame Latitude. For according to the Account the Ancients have left us of Greenland, the Ditance of Ground that lies uncultivated between the Wet and Eat Side is but 12 Norway Miles by Water. See 's Relation; or according to a later Computation, it is a Journey of fix Days in a Boat. And as the Ruins of old Habitations, which I have dicovered between 60 and 61 Degrees, are without doubt in the mot Southerly Part of the Wet Side; it of Neceity follows, that the Ditance cannot be very great from thence to the mot Southern Parts of the Eatern Side. Now, if it hould be found practicable, at certain Times, to pas along the Shore with Boats or mall Ships to the Eat Side, to the Latitude of 63 and 64 Degrees, little Lodges might be ettled here and there with Colonies; by which Means a contant Correpondence might be kept, and mutual Aitance given to one another, though larger Ships could not yearly viit every one