has been quite extinct and forgot: All this ought to encourage us to continue our Endeavours to diſcover the Eaſtern Shore, where it is confeſſed, the chief Colony has been ſeated; and perhaps the Off-ſpring of the old Norwegians and Iſlanders may be recovered; which I don't think impoſſible, provided we go on in the right Way, as I hope to ſhew in the following Treatiſe.
How praiſe-worthy and glorious an Enterprize would it be, to undertake so great and wholeſom a Work, chiefly in regard to theſe unhappy People, who, by a juſt Judgment of God, now for upwards of three hundred Years, have been debarred all Communication with Chriſtians; which to remedy, not only our Civil, but Chriſtian Duty obliges us. It becomes us therefore heartily to pray God Almighty, that he will be pleaſed
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