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" rable talent, but conceited beyond measure ; 

 " and the style of his journal is so uncouth, 

 " and the jargon so obscure and comical, as in 

 " many places to be scarcely intelligible/' 



It is gratifying to me to be able to state, that 

 the amiable poet MASON, whose works are 

 sufficiently well known to all whom I now ad- 

 dress, to render any particular allusion to them 

 unnecessary, was a native of this town. 

 His grandfather, Hugh Mason, was appointed 



of the Author's Voyage. The extreme rarity of the volume will justify 

 the insertion at length, in this note, of its ample and descriptive title. 

 " North- West Fox, or, Fox from the North-west passage. Beginning 

 With King Arthvr, Malga, Octhvr, the two Zenis of Iseland, Estotiland, 

 zndDorgia; Following with briefe Abstracts of the Voyages of Cabot, 

 Frobisher, Davis, Waymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, 

 Baffin, Hawkridge: Together with the Courses, Distance, Latitudes, 

 Longitudes, Variations, Depths of Seas, Sets of Tydes, Currents, Races, 

 and over-Falls; with other Observations, Accidents and remarkable 

 things, as our Miseries and sufferings. Mr. lames Hall's three Voyages 

 to Groynland, with a Topographicall description of the Countries, the 

 Salvages lives and Treacheries, how our Men have beene slayne by them 

 there, with the Commodities of all those parts ; whereby the Marchant 

 may have Trade, and the Mariner Imployment. Demonstrated in a Polar 

 Card, wherein are all the Maines, Seas, and Hands, herein mentioned. 

 With the Author his owne Voyage, being the XVIth. with the opinions 

 and Collections of the most famous Mathematicians, and Cosmographers ; 

 with a Probabilitie to prove the same by Marine Remonstrations, com- 

 pared by the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, experimented with places 

 of our owne Coast. By Captains Lvke Foxe of Kingstone vpon Hull, 

 Capt. and Pylot for the Voyage, in his Majesties Pinnace the Charles. 

 Printed by his Majesties Command. London, Printed by B. Alsop and 

 Tho, Fawcet, dwelling in Grulstrect. 1635." 



