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July, in latitude 61% they saw a bay between two 

 high mountains, and they would have entered it if 

 the night had not prevented them. For several days 

 followino' thev continued to see land, which they 

 approached within four or five miles, but had no 

 means of reaching it on account of the ice. They 

 coasted along it as high as 6S° 30' of latitude, but 

 were obliged at length to give up their endeavours 

 to approach it, and returned to Denmark. Cap- 

 tain Danell set sail again from Copenhagen on the 

 l6th of April, 1653, went to the north of Ice- 

 land as far as latitude 73° beyond that of the 

 island Jan Meyen, and then took the direction 

 of S. W. and W. S. W., and on the 13th of June, 

 in latitude 64°, saw something blue in the horizon 

 which he conjectured to be Cape King Frederick. 

 On the 19th of June he saw Herjolfsnes in Green- 

 land in latitude 64°, but the ice was twenty-four or 

 five miles from the coast. He coasted along as far 

 as Cape Farewell, but always at the distance of 

 forty-five or fifty miles from the coast, on account 

 of the masses of ice; and he repaired to the western 

 coast of Greenland, from whence he returned to 

 Denmark. 



ZACCHARIAH GILLAM. 1668. 



The lapse of forty years nearly w^ithout any at- 

 tempt being made for the discovery of a passage 

 into the South Seas, either by the north-east or the 



