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The report has high hopes and dreams of a future world where Icelandic will surpass English in the world following the founding of the colony and years of rapidly populating it. The report includes a calculation where 10 thousand Icelanders would form the colony and then double their numbers every 25 years, so that in 3-4 centuries they would number 100 million, covering the area from Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean . From there Icelandic could spread south, replacing the degenerate English tongue, as it is put. The author's disdain for English is more evident as he describes it as "being a prostitute who has laid with every language of savages and idiots". The nature and weather of Alaska is detailed for the benefit of future settlers. LINKS
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