has been quite extinct and forgot: All this ought to encourage us to continue our Endeavours to discover the Eastern Shore, where it is confessed, the chief Colony has been seated; and perhaps the Off-spring of the old Norwegians and Islanders may be recovered; which I don't think impossible, provided we go on in the right Way, as I hope to shew in the following Treatise.

How praise-worthy and glorious an Enterprize would it be, to undertake so great and wholesom a Work, chiefly in regard to these unhappy People, who, by a just Judgment of God, now for upwards of three hundred Years, have been debarred all Communication with Christians; which to remedy, not only our Civil, but Christian Duty obliges us. It becomes us therefore heartily to pray God Almighty, that he will be pleased to