238 DISCOVERIES ojr 1631. 



to the northward of Lumley's Inlet, the name of 

 which affords matter for another recollection, 

 namely, that of the Right Honourable Lord Lum- 

 ley, and his building the pier of Hartepool at his 

 own cost and charge, also the answer of an old 

 man, whom he (Fox) had asked at whose cost the 

 said pier was built ? " Marrye, at my good Lord 

 Lumley's, whose soule was in heaven before his 

 bones were cold." This kind of gossipping occurs 

 in almost every page of Fox's journal. 



On the 20th he arrives off Cape Chidley ; a spot 

 which brings to his fertile recollection GiZ^^o;?^ and 

 his hole, but why is not very apparent. The haste 

 with which he endeavoured to pass through Hud- 

 son's Strait to the westward, and to avoid the fate 

 of Gibbons, induced some one of his officers to 

 ask him why he was in such a hurry ? and his 

 answer was, "■ that it fared with him as with the 

 mackarell-men of London, who must hasten to 

 market before the fish stinke." Towards the 

 western extremity of the strait he was much 

 hampered with ice, which he observed to be of 

 two kinds; first, mountainous ice, floating about 

 in large masses, " seldome bigger than a great 

 church ;" and the second kind is called " masht or 

 fleackt ice, in pieces from a foot or two to two 

 acres, and one or two feet high above the surface." 

 One of the mountainous pieces, larger than the 

 rest, had a rock upon it of five or six tons weight, 

 with several other smaller stones and mud. 



