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night afterwards, as the ice was found hard set 

 against the land four leagues to the eastward of 

 Red Cliff. 



The next year Fotherby was again sent upon 

 discovery to the northward of Spitzbergen, and 

 Baffin was again appointed his pilot ; but he could 

 not succeed even as well as he had done the year 

 before ; nor was he as fortunate to the south- 

 westward as Hudson had been, for in several 

 attempts which he made to reach the eastern 

 coast of Greenland, he encountered mountains of 

 ice, many leagues to the eastward of it. In this 

 jmrt of his voyage he fell in with Jan Mayen 

 island, of which he gives a very good descrip- 

 tion, and estimates its length within a mile of 

 what it has since been accurately determined by 

 Mr. Scoresby. This island is said to have been 

 discovered in 1611 by Jan Mayen, and was 

 certainly the same island upon which a ship of 

 Saint Sebastian was lost in 1613.* The dis- 

 covery, however, appears to have been unknown 

 to Fotherby, who gave it the name of Sir 

 Thomas Smith, and to the mountain now known 

 by the name of Beerenburg, Hakluyt's Mount. 

 Fotherby appears to have made several attempts 

 both to pass Spitzbergen and to get a sight of 

 Greenland about Hudson's Hold-with-Hope, in 



* See Purchas' Pilgrims, vol. iii. p. 718. 



u 2 



A.D. 



1615. 



