1742. CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON. 281 



a ship of the Navy for the purposes of discovery, 

 and to give the command of her to Captain 

 MiDDLETON. Accordingly the Furnace bomb 

 and the Discover]/ pink were put under his orders, 

 the latter being commanded by Mr. William 

 Moor. 



Middleton left England in 1741, and passed the 

 winter in Churchill River, m latitude 58° 56', 

 where he unaccountably was detained till the 1 st 

 July, 1742. Leaving this river he stood along the 

 coast to the northward, and on the 4th saw Brook 

 Cobham, which had still much snow lying on it. 

 On the 10th he was in latitude 63° 51', longitude 

 88° 34', the Welcome being here eleven or twelve 

 leagues in width and full of floating ice, from the 

 upper part of which they procured fresh water for 

 the use of the ships' companies. 



Having got through the ice, he observed, to the 

 northward of Cape Dobbs, another headland on 

 the north-west side of the Welcome in latitude 

 65" 12', longitude 86° 6' W., beyond which was a 

 fair opening or river six or eight miles in width, 

 which extended within to the width of four or five 

 leagues. Into this opening the ships proceeded 

 to secure them from the ice, until it had dispersed 

 in the Welcome. The entrance into this river, 

 called the IVager, lies in latitude 65° 23'. The ice 

 floated in and out with the flood and ebb tides, but 

 a good anchorage was found on the northern side 

 free from the ice in a cove which he called Savage 

 Sound, 



