Supplementary Note to a Paper on " The Sunken Land of 

 Bus."*— Br H. S. Poole, D. Sc. 



Having otherwise failed to obtain information respecting the 

 origin of the above title, an cnquir}^ was inserted in Notes and 

 Queries and the following reply was shortly afterwards obtained : 



" ' Sunken Land of Bus ' (10 s, v. 509) is named after one of Sir 

 Martin Frobisher's ships in his third voyage in L578. The relation 

 of the pretended discovery, given by Hakluyt ( Voyages of the English 

 Nation, vol. iii, 160 e, p. 93), runs thus : 'The Busse of Bridgewater, 

 as she came homeward to the southeastward of Frieseland, discovered 

 a great island in the latitude of 57 degrees and an half, which was 

 never yet found before, and sailed three dayes alongst the coast, the 

 land seeming to be fruitfull, full of woods and a Campion Country.' 



"John Barrow in his Chronological History of Vogages into the 

 Arctic Regions (Lond., 1818, p. 94) sa3-s that 'a bank has recently 

 been sounded upon, which has revived the idea of the Frieseland of 

 Zeno and the Busse of Bridgewater having been swallowed up by an 

 earthquake.' 



" A full summary of the subject of the Land of Bus is given by 

 Mr. Miller Christy as appendix B to C. C. A. Gosch's Danish Arctic 

 Expeditions, 1605 to 1620, Hakluyt Soc, Book I, 1897. See also 

 The Annals of the Voyages of the Brothers Nicolo a7id Antonio Zeno, by 

 Fred. W. Lucas, Lond., 1898." 



Royal Library, Stockholm. (Signed) E. W. Dahlgren. 



See Transactions of A. S. Institute of Science, vol. xi, p. 193. 



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