HERRNHUT, New, is also the name of the oldest mission settlement of the United Brethren in Greenland. It is situated on Balls River, a few miles from the sea, near Davis's Straits, on the western coast of Greenland, not far from the Danish colony Godhaab. The two first missionaries were sent from Herrnhut in the year 1733, and their laudable intentions were favoured by the king of Denmark. They had to struggle in this uncultivated, frozen, and savage country, with inconceivable hardships, and found at first great difficulty in acquiring the language of the natives. However, after six years labour and perseverance, they had the satisfaction to baptize four persons, all of one family; and from that time the mission began to prosper, so that in the succeeding years two other settlements were begun, called Lichtensels and Lichtenau: All of them continue in prosperity. About 1300 of the natives have been christianized since the beginning of this mission. See Crantz's History of Greenland, London, 1777.