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40' and saw great store of whales. On the 30th 

 tliey had clear weather and found hy observation 

 that thev were in 72° 12\ and that the variation of 

 the compass was 28° W. The land along which 

 they had been running, and which was the west 

 coast of Greenland, they named the London coast. 

 At this high latitude, finding the sea all open to 

 the westward and to the northward, and the wind 

 shifting to the northward, they left that part of the 

 shore, which they called Hope Sanderson and, 

 shaping their course west, ran forty leagues in that 

 direction without meeting with any land. On the 

 2d July, however, they fell in with a "mightie bank 

 of ice" to the westward, among which they were 

 hampered for eleven or twelve days. They then 

 detenu ined to get near the shore and wait five or 

 six days " for the dissolving of the ice, hoping 

 that the sea continually beating it, and the sunne 

 with the extreme force of heat which it had 

 always shining upon it, would make a quickc 

 dispatch, that we might have a further search 

 upon the westerne shore;" but they found the 

 water too deep to come to an anchor, and either 

 from *' some fault in the barke or the set of some 

 current," they were driven six points out of their 

 course, and on the l^th were abreast of Mount 

 Raleigh : from hence they stood sixty leagues up 

 the strait discovered in the first voyage, (and which 

 is now called Cumberland Strait,) and anchored 

 among the islands at the bottom of the gulph, to 



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