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Rh hardly remarkable. See Mr. Wollf's Reaonable Thoughts on the Effects of Nature, p. 541. Whereas no where greater Tide is oberved; the Sea at New and Full Moon, epecially in the Spring and Fall, ries and falls about three Fathoms. 



are no venomous Serpents or Inects, no ravenous wild Beats to be een in Greenland, if you except the Beat, which ome will have to be an Amphibious Animal, as he lives chiefly upon the Ice in the mot northern Parts, and feeds upon Seals and Fih. He very eldom appears near the Colony, in which I had taken up my Quarters. He is of a very large Size, and of a hideous and frightful A-  pect,