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tilde of six tie seuen degrees and there I might see 

 America,'* West from me, and Desolation East, 

 then when I saw the land of both sides, I began to 

 distrust that it would prooue but a gulfe, notwith- 

 standmg desirous to knowe the full certaintye I 

 proceeded, and in sixtie eight degrees the passage 

 enlaro-ed so that I could not see the westerne 

 shore, thus I continued to the latitude of seuentie 

 iiue degrees, in a great sea, free from yse coasting 

 the westerne shore of Desolation, the people came 

 continually rowing out vnto me in their Canoas 

 twenty, forty, and one hundred at a time, and 

 would giue me fishe dried, Samon, Samon peale, 

 cod, Caplin, Lumpe, stone base, and such like, 

 besides diners kindes of birdes, as Partrig, Fesant, 

 Gh.ills, sea birdes, and other kindes of fleshe, I 

 still laboured by signes to knowe from them what 

 they knew of any sea towards the North, they still 

 made signes of a great sea as we vnderstood them, 

 then I departed from that coast thinking to dis- 

 couer the North parts of America, and after I had 

 savled towardes the west neere fortie leages I fell 

 upon a great bancke of yse, the wind being North 

 and blewe much, I was constrained to coast the 

 same towardes the South, not seeing any shore 

 West from me, neither was there any yse towards 

 the North, but a great sea, free, large, very salt 



♦ This land must have been the Ja7n€ss Island of some of our 

 charts, the existence of which however has been considered 

 doubtful. 



