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Iceland, they continued to ſpread themſelves all along the Shore and in the Bays; as far as Baal's River, where they did ſtop; and where we find many Ruins of the old Norwegian Edifices. And whereas I myſelf have lately met with ſo many Stone Buildings, ſo far to the South, I think my Concluſion is good, that the Land upon which theſe Houſes ſtand, is no particular Iſland, but contiguous to the Main. It is therefore very reaſonable to believe, that whereas the Ancients took Notice of, and ſo accurately deſcribed, all thoſe Bays and Iſlands that were inhabited; they would not have paſſed by in Silence theſe two large Iſlans, whereupon ſuch ſtately Buildings were erected. And for this Reaſon I have hereto joined a new Map or Delineation of Greenland, to ſhew the Contiguouſneſs of the Eaſt and Weſt Greenland, agreeably to other new Carts of Thermoder and others; which I follow as far as I find them not contradictory to the Deſcription of the Ancients, and to my own Experience.

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