An account of several late voyages and discoveries

tbe Nortb-Eafl Voyagcs. 2 o l is füll kcpt at J,fTinájor. In 1578. ·l1e wcnt out again upon a Dif<:ovcry~ whercin paffing as far as he lhought goo:!, he took poffeffion of the I.and in the name of Quccn ElizAbe1h, calling it Meta in,ogntta. In 1 583. Sir Hump/,rty Gilbert upon the fame defign went to thc great Rivcr of St. la11rence, in C4nAÁA, tcok poffcffion of thc Country, .and fettled a FHhing-Trade therc~·. This Voyagc I füppofe was made upc,n füg– geflion of a Greek Ma1·iner, who aífurcd fome of our Nation, that himfelf had paJfcd a grcat Srrait, North of Virginia, from the Weit or South Ocean, and offered to be Pilot for the Difcovery, but died bcfore he came into England. ln I sSS• Mr John Davis was employcd with two Barks to tbe fame fearch. The firft Land he carne to, he nam,d the La11d of D,jolation, and is onc part of Gro11ela11d; thco he arrived in ~4 deg. 15 min. m Gilhtrt,s Sound, w here they found a great quantity of that Oar, which .Frobifh,r brought into Elzgl.ind, and alfo Lapu Spe",IAru. Thence they wcnt to 66 dcg. 40 min. to Mo,mt Ra.. l1igh, Tot»efs Sormd, &c. wherc they faw fome f~w low Shrubs, but nothing elfo worth no– tmg. In 1586. he made a fccond Voyage ro the fame Place, where he found ~mongfr the Natives Copper üar, as alfe black and red Coppcr. Thence·they fearched many Places Wcft~