of Greenland.
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Amongſt the Produce of the Sea, beſides different Shells, Muſcles, and Periwinkles, there are alſo Coral Trees, of which I have ſeen one, of a fine Form and Size.
CHAP. IV.
Of the Nature of the Climate, and the Temperament of the Air.
The Weather is ſettled and moſt commonly ſerene.The Natives of Greenland have no Reaſon to complain of Rains and Stormy Weather, which ſeldom trouble them; eſpecially in the Bay of Diſco, in the 68th Degree of Latitude, where they commonly have clear and ſettled Weather during the whole Summer Seaſon: but again, when foul and ſtormy Weather falls in, it rages with an incredible Fierceneſs and Violence, chiefly when the Wind comes about Southerly, or South Weſt; and the Storm is laid and ſucceeded by fair Weather as ſoon as the Wind ſhifts about to the
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