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Rh agree better together. Turnips and Cole are very good here, and of a weet Tate, epecially the Turnips, which are pretty large. I mut oberve to you, that all that has been aid of the Fruitfulnes of the Greenland Soil, is to be undertood of the Latitude of 60 to 65; and differs according to the different Degrees of Latitude. For in the mot Northern Parts you find neither Herbs nor Plants; o that the Inhabitants cannot gather Gras enough to put in their Shoes, to keep their Feet warm, but are obliged to buy it from the Southern Parts.

Of Greenland Metals or Minerals I have little or nothign to ay. 'Tis true, that about two Norway Miles to the South of the Colony of Good Hope, on a Promontory, there are here and there green Spots to be een, like Verdigreae, which hews there mut be ome And a certain Greenlander, once brought me ome Pieces not unlike  There is likewie a ort of Calamine, which has the Co- lour