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with ice, that they were enclosed in it for sixteen 

 or eighteen days, and the air was constantly loaded 

 with thick fog. On the 17th August they re- 

 passed the strait of Waigatz, among much ice, 

 snow, and fog, and on the 22d the ships parted 

 company. On the 27th the George was opposite 

 Kegor, on the 31st doubled the North Cape, 

 and on the 26th October they reached Ratcliffc, 

 " and praised God for their safe returne." 



The William was less fortunate. She arrived at 

 a port in Norway to the southward of Drontheim, 

 in October, and wintered there. In the February 

 following she departed from thence, in company 

 with a ship belonging to the king of Denmark, 

 towards Iceland, and from that time w^as never 

 more heard of 



From the meagre narrative of this voyage it is 

 sufficiently evident, that Pet and Jackman were but 

 indifferent navigators, and that they never trusted 

 themselves from the shore and out of shallow 

 water, whenever the ice w^ould suffer them to 

 approach it ; a situation of all others where they 

 might have made themselves certain of being 

 hampered with ice, though only in the 6Sih and 

 69th degrees of latitude. From this time the 

 English merchants, trading to Russia, were satis- 

 fied with sending their ships to the bay of St. 

 Nicholas, or Archangel, and of committing their 

 enterprizes of eastern discoveries to journeys by 

 land. 



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