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command a vessel called the Amitie, of seventy 

 tons, and a crew of fourteen men and boys. 



Poole met with an unusual quantity of ice to 

 the southwestward of Cherie Island, and had 

 several severe encounters with it in his attempt 

 to get near the island. Finding he could not 

 approach it, he stood to the northwest, and on 

 the 16th May was close in with the south Cape 

 of Spitzbergen. 



Poole was much hindered with fogs and ice 

 along this coast ; but by perseverance he reached 

 the northwest extremity of the island, in latitude 

 79° 50' N., when he found the ice close down 

 upon the land ; and, seeing there was no passage, 

 he returned. He discovered, and entered, several 

 bays and sounds, and was, evidently, more intent 

 upon picking up a cargo of blubber and teeth, 

 than in attempting a passage. In the descrip- 

 tion of this part of the coast of Spitzbergen 

 consists the chief merit of this voyage, which, 

 after all, was more of a mercantile than of a 

 scientific character. 



To a sound, in latitude 77° 0' N., he gave the 

 name of Horn Sound, from having found a deer's 

 horn upon the beach ; and to a hill, four leagues 

 south of it, Muscovy Mount ; to a sound north 

 of this, Lowe Sound. He also named Fair 

 Foreland, Ice Sound, Cape Cold, Gurnard's Nose* 



A.D. 



1610. 



