]6S DISCOVERIES OF 1602. 



ing some of it off, " the great island of ice gave a 

 mightie cracke two or three times, as though it 

 had hecn a thunder-clappe ; and presently the 

 island began to overthrow, which was like to have 

 sunk both our boats. "^ 



An inlet is described in 6l° 40', not much pes- 

 tered ^vith ice, and forty leagues broad, within 

 which Weymouth says he sailed a hundred leagues 

 west and by south, but which we now know must 

 have been impossible. Indeed the whole account 

 of Weymouth's proceedings is so confused, that 

 little or nothing can be drawn from it, except that 

 he was among the islands to the northward of 

 Hudson's Strait, and probably those of Cape Chid- 

 ley ; and though he calls every land he fell in with 

 the " land of America," it is quite clear that he 

 never came near the American coast, except that 

 part of it which is known by the name of Labra- 

 dor, along which he continued to range from the 

 5th to the 14th July, when he discovers an inlet 

 in lat. 56^, up which he sailed thirty leagues, en- 

 tertaining sanguine hopes of a passage through it : 

 this inlet corresponds with Sleeper's Bay, or Davis's 

 Inlet. On the 5th August he arrived at Dart- 

 mouth, t 



The voyage of Weymouth was a complete 

 failure. He reached no higher than lat. 63° 53'; 

 ■' hee neither discovered," says Luke Fox, " nor 



* Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iii. p. 812. 

 t Ibid. p. 814. 



