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INTRODUCTION. 



Fotherby was again fitted out the next year in a pinnace 

 of twenty tons, called the Richard, with ten men. In 

 this voyage he was prevented by the ice from getting 

 farther than in his kft. He refers to a chart, in which he 

 had traced the (hip's courfe on every traverfe, to fhew how 

 far the Hate of that fea was difcovered between eighty and 

 feventy-one degrees of latitude, and for twenty-{ix degrees 

 of longitude from Hackluit's headland. He concludes the 

 account of his voyage in the following manner : 



" Now, if any demand my opinion concerning hope 

 " of a paflage to be found in thofe feas, I anfwer ; that it 

 *' is true, that I both hoped and much defired to have 

 *' palled further than I did, but was hindered with ice ; 

 " wherein although I have not attained my defire, yet 

 " forafmuch as it appears not yet to the contrary, but 

 ■"^* that there is a fpacious fea betwixt Grolnland and king 

 ** James his new land [Spitsbergen] although much pefter- 

 ed with ice ; I will not feem to difwade this worfliip- 

 ful company from the yearly adventuring of 150 or 200 

 '* pounds at the moft, till fome further difcovery be made 

 *' of the fa'id feas and lands adjacent." It appears that 

 the Ruflla company, either fatisfied with his endeavours 

 and defpairing of further fuccefs, or tired of the expence 

 of the undertaking, never employed any more (hips on this 

 difcovery. 



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