Excerpt from The Poetical Works, Vol. 3 Poem the Author frankly acknow ledges that he has so far failed, as to be under the necessity of sending it forth incomplete, or sup pressing it altogether. Why he has not done the latter is of little importance to the public, which will assuredly award him no more credit than his performance, taken as it is, can command; while the consequences of his temerity, or his misfortune, must remain wholly with himself. The original plan was intended to embrace the most prominent events in the annals of ancient and modern Greenland; - incidental descriptions of whatever is sublime or picturesque in the seasons and scenery, or peculiar in the superstitions, man ners, and character of the natives, - with a rapid retrospect of that moral revolution which the Gos pel has wrought among these people by reclaiming them, almost universally, from dark idolatry and savage ignorance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.