Now, God, who bade light shine forth in darkness, enlighten your hearts, in the light of the knowledge of God’s glorious appearance in and through Christ Jesus. May he deliver your souls from the slavery of the Devil, and of sinful lusts, as you are free from corporeal bondage, to the end that you always may be free with the Lord both in soul and body. Amen.
THE END.
CHARLES WOOD, Printer,
Poppin’s Court, Fleet Street, London.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Torfæi Gronlandia Antiqua Havniæ, 1706, p. 16; see also Peyrere Relation du Groenland, p. 84. These two authorities are principally followed. Peyrere’s work is in Recueil de Voyages au Nord, tome premier.
[2] Torfæus, p. 13, “medias alpes.”
[3] Torfæus, p. 14.
[4] Ibid., p. 19.
[5] Peyrere.
[6] Torfæus possessed three versions of this account in German, Danish, and Icelandic. His narrative runs,—The most Eastern settlement of Greenland lies under the promontory of Herjolfsness, and is called Skagefiord. Here is an uncultivated mountain, called Barrafell. At the mouth is a long sandbank (pulvinus longus), stretched across, so that no ships can enter, except when the water is raised to a great height by the wind and tide. At that time numbers of whales crowd into the bay. Here is a never-failing fishery, which is part of the episcopal domain.