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On the 18th, on perceiving that much of the ice 

 had aheady wasted, they proceeded northerly ; hut 

 the weather was extremely cold with much snow, 

 and Baffin says, it froze so hard, ^' that on Mid- 

 summer day our shrowds, roapes, and sailes were 

 so frozen that we could scarce handle them." By 

 the 1st July, being then in latitude 75° 40', they 

 had got into an open sea, *' which," says Baffin, 

 " anew revived the hope of a passage." On the 

 second they found a fair cape or headland, which 

 they named Sir Dudley Digges's Cape, in latitude 

 76*^ 35', and twelve leagues beyond this a fair 

 sound, having an island in the midst, making two 

 entrances. To this sound they gave the name of 

 JVolstenholme Sound ; it is described as having 

 many inlets or smaller sounds in it, and as a fit 

 place for the killing of whales. 



On the 4th, the weather being stormy, they 

 found themselves embayed in a large sound, in 

 wdiich they saw so many whales that they named 

 it JV hale Sound: it lies in latitude 77° 30'. Between 

 two great sounds w^as an island, which they called 

 Hakluyt's Island, and the latter sound Sir Thomas 

 Smith's Soujid, wdiich runneth to the north of 78°, 

 " and is admirable in one respect, because in it is 

 ithe greatest variation in the compasse of any part 

 of the w^orld known ; for, by divers good observa- 

 tions, I found it to be above fivx points or fifty-six 

 degrees varied to the westward." To a cluster of 

 islands Baffin gave the name of Carey's Islands, 



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