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and craggy Mountains perpetually covered with Ice and Snow, which never thaws. An Attempt made again by Lieutenant Richard, 1729.Another new Attempt by Sea was by Order of the ſaid King made in the Year 1729. by Lieutenant Richard; who with his Ship paſſed the Winter near the new Daniſh Colony, in Greenland, and in his Voyage back to Denmark made all the Endeavours he could to come at the aforeſaid Shore, oppoſite to Iceland; but all to no Purpoſe, being herein diſappointed, like the Reſt before him.
A new Project for to penetrate to the Eaſt Side.All theſe Difficulties and continual Diſappointments, have made moſt People loſe all Hopes of ſucceeding in this Attempt: Nevertheleſs, I flatter my ſelf to have hit luckily on an Expedient, which to me ſeems not unpracticable, though hitherto not tried, or at leaſt but lightly executed: viz. to endeavour to coaſt the Land from the States Promontory, or (as we call it) Cape Prince Chriſtian, Northwards. The Information I have had of ſome Greenlanders, who in their Boats have coaſted a great Part of the
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