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we learn, that he sailed from Churchill River on 

 the S22d June, 172^. In latitude 6'f he had 

 communication with the natives and traded with 

 them. In 64"* 5() he came to an anchor within 

 three leagues of the north shore, to the projecting 

 headland of which he gave the name of JVhalebone 

 Point. Here he saw many black whales in the 

 water, and several deer on the land. "He had 

 two northern Indians with him who had wintered 

 at Churchill, and told him of a rich copper mine 

 somewhere in that country, upon the shore near 

 the surface of the earth, and they could direct the 

 sloop so near it as to lay her side to it, and be 

 soon loaded with it ; they had brought some 

 pieces of copper from it to Churchill, that made 

 it evident there was a mine thereabouts. They 

 had sketched out the country with charcoal upon 

 a skin of parchment before they left Churchill, 

 and so far as they went it agreed very well."* 



In latitude 64° 8', being then m the Welcome, 

 he saw many whales, but no ice. The land from 

 Whalebone Point fell off to the southward of 

 west, and the men who went on shore said they 

 perceived nothing to prevent their going farther ; 

 their soundings here were from 40 to 60 fathoms. 

 Captain Norton, late Governor of Churchill, who 

 was then with Scroggs, confirmed all that the 

 latter had stated; said that the tide rose thirty 



* An Account of the Cou?ifn€s adjoining to Hudsons Bay. By, 

 Arthur Dobbs^ Esq. p; 80. 



