and negative may be true, without the leaſt Contradiction. For Greenland can paſs for no better than a diſmal and pitiful Country, in Regard to the greateſt Part of it, viz. all the Inland Country, which is perpetually covered with Ice and Snow, that never melts, and therefore of no Uſe to Mankind; and as to the remaining Part, on the Sea Side, moſt of it lies uncultivated and uninhabited: But here it may again be ſaid, that as to the firſt Part, or the Inland Country, it is a Thing that's paſt Remedy; but as to the laſt Part, or the Sea-Side, it may Manuring, ſo that it may recover its former Fertility; and thus it might be reckoned a good and profitable Country, provided the formerly inhabited Tracts of Land were anew ſettled and peopled. I will forbear to mention to great Wealth and Rechneſs, which lies hidden in the Greenland Seas, and can never be exhauſted.
From the Land I will go to the Inhabitants, which every body will think more
wretched
