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The Natural Hiſtory
ing on the Weſtern Shore, originally deſcended from the Americans; as may with great Probability be gathered from the Agreement of their Perſons, Cuſtoms and Habits with thoſe who dwell to the North of Hudſon's Bay; as likewiſe while thoſe, that inhabited the Northern Parts (now going by the Name of Davis's Straits) advanced nearer and nearer to the South, and often made War upon the Norwegians. Concerning the Cauſe of the Ruin and total Deſtruction of that ſo well eſtablished Norwegian Colony, there is nothing found upon Record; Cauſes why all Correſpondence and Navigation ceaſed between Norway and Greenland.the Reaſon of which I think to be, that after all Correſpondence and Navigation ceaſed between Greenland and Norway, partly by the Change and Tranſlation of the Government in Queen Margaret's Reign; and partly by the next following continual Wars between the Danes and Swedes, which cauſed the Navigation to thoſe Parts to be laid aſide, and chiefly by the great Difficulty and innumerable Dangers of ſuch Navigation, which ſeveral Cauſes cut off all Intelligences, that might
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