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to appeaſe his Wrath kindled againſt theſe poor Wretches, and to diſcloſe to our moſt gracious Sovereign, and to other well-intentioned Chriſtians, the beſt Way and Means to this Country's Diſcovery and happy Reſtitution. And though we ſhouls fail of Succeſs, in ſtill meeting with the aforeſaid Off-ſpring of the old Norwegian and Iſland Chriſtians, who, for ought we know, may be all extinct and deſtroyed, as we found it on the Weſt Coaſt; yet, for all that, I ſhould not think all our Labour loſt, nor our Coſts made to no Purpoſe, as long as it may be for the Good and Advantage of thoſe ignorant Heathens, that live there; to whom we have Reaſon to hope, our moſt gracious Sovereign will alſo extend his fatherly Clemency, and Chriſtin Zeal, to provide for their eternal Happineſs, as he ſo graciouſly has done for thoſe on the Weſtern Shore;

ſeeing