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feet ; that being on shore at the top of a mountain 

 he saw the land fall away to the southward of 

 west, and nothing to prevent their going farther. 

 . In this account there is not a syllable mentioned 

 of any search being made for the unfortunate 

 crews of the two ships; not a single inquiry 

 whether they might be living, or be destroyed by 

 the natives, or have perished from cold and hunger. 

 Many persons, indeed, were sanguine enough 

 to conjecture that Knight and Barlow had dis- 

 covered the north-west passage, and had pro- 

 ceeded through it into the South Sea to return by 

 the way of Cape Horn; but two years having 

 expired put an end to these delusive hopes : and 

 it was not before the year 1767 that the most un- 

 equivocal proofs were discovered of the melancholy 

 fate of these adventurers, and of the whole of 

 their part3^ 



In that year, as some of the boats employed on 

 the Company's whale fishery, near Marble Island, 

 stood in close to the shore, they discovered a new 

 and commodious harbour near the east end of it, 

 at the head of which were found guns, anchors, 

 cables, bricks, a smith's anvil, and several other 

 articles, which, from their weight or uselessness, 

 had not been removed from their original place by 

 the natives. The remains of a house, and the hulls 

 or rather bottoms of the two ships were also dis- 

 covered under water ; and some of their guns and 

 the figure-head of one of the ships were sent home 



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