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'77S- upward of five hundred and twenty leagues to the Weftward 



^— -V ' of any part of Baffin's, or of Hudfon's Bay. And whatever 



pafTage there may be, it mufl be, or, at leaft, part of it, 

 mufl lie to the North of latitude 72°*'. Who could expetft to 

 find a paflage or flrait of fuch extent? 



Monday iS. Having thus taken my refolution, next morning at three 

 o'clock, we weighed, and with a gentle breeze at North, pro- 

 ceeded to the Southward down the inlet ; and met with the 

 fame broken ground, as on the preceding day. However, 

 we foon extricated ourfelvcs from it, and afterward never 

 itruck ground with a line of forty fathoms. Another paf- 

 fage into this inlet was now difcovered, to the South Wefl of 

 that by which we came in, which enabled us to fhorten 

 our way out to fca. It is feparated from the other by 

 an ifland, extending eighteen leagues in the direction of 

 North Eaft and South Weft ; to which I gave the name of 

 Montagu IJlarJ. 



In this South Weft channel are feveral iftands. Tliofe that 

 lie in the entrance, next the open fea, are high and rocky. 

 But thofe within are low ones ; and being entirely free from 

 fnow, and covered with wood and verdure, on this account: 

 they were called Green Jjlands, 



At two in the afternoon, the wind veered to the South 

 Weft, and South Weft by South, which reduced us to the 

 nccefllty of plying. I firft ftretched over to within two miles 

 of the Eaftern fhore, and tacked in fifty-three fathoms 

 water. In flanding back to Montagu Ifland, we difcovered 

 a ledge of rocks; fome above, and others under water, ly- 

 ing three miles within, or to the North of the Northern 



» On what evidence Captain Cook formed his judgment as to this, will be men- 

 tiojied in the IntroduiStion. 



point 



