An account of several late voyages and discoveries

the N1Jrtl,· Eaft Voy,~u. 1 o 5 tending to Trncfo with them. They crycd thc Nlinc at 1...'1mningb.1m's R.ivcr, w liich the J)4nes had digg'd bcforc, and found it to be;: uothing wonh. Thcrc wcre Rocks of vcry ¡mre Stonc, fincr ami whitcr than Alabaíl-er, and Angclica growing plcntifully iu many Places, which thc Savagcs uft::d to car. In 16c 5. Mr. B4/in was fent again; l1c found Fair-Point to diffor in Lonr,itudc from London 7 4 deg. 5 min. ,v cftward. iut thc chief thing thcy difr:ovcr'cl was, that thcre was no Paífagc in the North of Davis S:,-aiu, 1t b'-ing no other than a great Bay ; but that pmfit might be ~adc by fühing for Whales, Mortfcs, ami Umc:orns, of wbich thcre are good f\orc. · In 1616. Mr. Baffin wcnt agaii1. In Sir Tho. Smith's Sound, 78 deg. Lat. thcir Com– pafs varied 56 dcg. \Vcfiward, the greatcJl: variation that is any where known. Defpair– ing to dif<..over their dcfired North•wefi Paf– fage, they returned home, and fince that wc hear of no more Voyagcs made from Englaml upon that defign, cxccpt by Capt. 1ames, in 1631. This Ingenious and mofi Skilful Navigator. Capt. Tho.1ames was pctter'd with much ke 1 in thcfe North· \Vcfr Seas in J11JJe ami 'Jr.ly, failing from Cap_('·Fttrt'111dl, by the Hl,rnd of Re[oltttron, to .~J!l's and Nr,ttmgham {fles, as alto that call'cl ft..f.1mfieltl~ from whcncc he licl!r'd on:r a grc.1t ·1i:iy to thc \Yeitward~ nt:ar