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Eaſt-Side, confirms me in my Opinion; for although an incredible Quantity of driven Ice yearly comes from Spitzbergen or New Greenland, along this Coaſt, and paſſes by the States Promontory; which hinders the approaching of Ships, as far as the Ice ſtretches, where about the beſt Part of the Norwegian Colonies were ſettled; yet there have been found Breaks and open Sea near the Shore, through which Boats and ſmaller Veſſels may paſs: I am of Opinion, at certain Times one may paſs near the Shore in Boats.And according to the Relation of the Greenlanders, as well as agreeably to my own Experience, the Current, that comes out of the Bays and Inlets, always running along the Shore, South-Weſt-wards, hinders the Ice from adhering to the Land, and keeps it at a Diſtance from the Shore: By which means the Greenlanders at certain times, without any Hindrance, have paſt and repaſſed part of this Coaſt in their Kone-Boats; (ſo they call their large Boats) though they have not been ſo far as where the old Norway-Colonies had their Settlement; of which no Doubt there are ſtill ſome Ruins to be
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