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the cape the land was observed to stretch away to 

 the norih-eastward, and the farther they proceeded 

 north the shoaler was the water, and the more the 

 sea pestered with ice. Having, therefore, reached 

 the lat. 65° 26' and long. 86° 10' W., the master 

 concluded they were in a great bay, " and so 

 tacked and turned the shippes head homewards, 

 without any farther search." 



Coasting the land, therefore, to the southward, 

 they fell in with a number of morses, and called 

 the point opposite, Sea-horse Point ; passed Not- 

 tingham's Isle, near which they remained till the 

 27th of July, observing the set of the tides, the 

 time of high water, &c, and taking in ballast. 

 From thence they proceeded between Salisbury 

 and Nottingham Islands. The master, however, 

 was not quite satisfied in giving up the point so 

 soon and stood back again to Sea-horse Point, but 

 the trending of the land gave no hopes of a passage 

 that way, and they again stood to the south-east- 

 ward to Digges's Islands, where they killed about 

 seventy fowls, which are called willocks; and it is 

 observed they might have kijled many thousands, 

 these birds frequenting those islands in incredible 

 multitudes. On the 5th of August they passed 

 Resolution Island, and on the 7th of September 

 came to anchor in Plymouth Sound ; all the crew 

 living, having only three or four sick, all of whom 

 speedily recovered. 



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