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to run above sixty leagues to the eastward, before 

 they got clear of the ice, and were many times so 

 hampered that they could get no way. They were 

 unable to approach the shore again until the 24th 

 of July, when they were in latitude about 68° ; and 

 then, though they saw the laud, they could not get 

 nearer than eight or nine leagues. From this situation 

 the ice led them into the latitude of 65'-^ 40', where, 

 being hopeless of a passage, considering themselves in 

 the indraft of Cumberland Islands, and the season be- 

 ing too far spent to return to the head of the bay to 

 seek for whalebone, they stood across to the coast of 

 Greenland, and put into Cockhi Sound, in latitude 

 65^' 45', to refresh the crew, several of whom Avere 

 sickly. Here, by the use of scurvy-grass, which 

 they found in great abundance, and other suit- 

 able regimen, they were restored to health in a 

 few days. This sound, described by Baffin as a 

 very good harbour, they left on the 6th of August, 

 and anchored all well (excepting one man, who 

 died in Davis' Strait,) on the 30th of the same 

 month in Dover Road. 



Such was the extensive nature of the discoveries 

 made on this occasion, and such the remarkable po- 

 sition given to the land, that, combined with the 

 meagerness of all published accounts of the voyage, 

 and the suppression of the chart and tables to 

 which Baffin refers, occasioned a considerable doubt 



