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quired: But having ſince that Time got a fuller Light in theſe Matters, partly by my own Obſervations, and partly by thoſe of my Son Paul Egede, who has been four Years Miſſionary in the North-Weſt Colony of Greenland, I have found it neceſſary to perfect and enlarge this little Work in Embryo, under the ſame Title that it made its firſt Appearance, with ſome usſeful Additions, and with the Ornaments of diverſe Figures and Cuts of certain Animals, Fiſhes, Birds, Plants, and other natural Products of the Country, together with a new-contrived Map of the ſame, that ſo the Reader may the better comprehend what he finds in this Sketch. Though Greenland be a Country of a vaſt Extent, yet it affords but a narrow Field for any Obſervation or Remarks of Conſequence; there being no ſtrong or well-built Towns to meet with; no well-ordered Polity or Civil Govern-

ment;