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thence lay a great ship; he accordingly sailed thither, 

 and found only one man advanced in years and a 

 youth; the ship, they told him, was of New Eng- 

 land, from a town called Boston; presently the owner 

 himself appeared, whose name was Seimor Gibbons, 

 along with Captain Shapeley, the pilot or navigator 

 of the vessel. In the meantime Barnarda sent in- 

 telligence that there was no communication out of 

 the Spanish sea by Davis's Strait, which terminated 

 in a fresh lake of about thirty miles in circum- 

 ference in the 80th degree of north latitude — and 

 this spurious admiral De Fonte ends his narrative 

 by saying that he returned home, " having found 

 that there was no passage into the South Sea by 

 that which is called the north-west passage." 



This " adventurous piece of geography," as 

 Captain Burney calls it,* had also, like the voyage 

 of Maldonado, its defenders in two members of 

 the French academy, Messrs. De L'Isle and P. 

 Buache, the former of whom not only translated 

 the English narrative, but accompanied it with a 

 map, drawn jointly between him and Buache, by 

 way of illustrating the routes of De Fonte, and his 

 Captain Barnarda. Mr. Dairy mple, however, con- 

 ceived it to be an idle piece of invention by one 

 Petiver, a contributor to the above miCntioned 

 " Miscellany y' in which it first appeared ; at any 



* 



* Chronological History of Voyages and Discoveries, vol. 

 iii. p. 196. 



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