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There it appears, that at the entry into Davis's Straits, north 

 lat. 60 degrees, and 28 of longitude, counting from the firfi 

 meridian, he turned to the weft, leaving Hiidfon s Bay on 

 the fouth, and Baffin's Bay on the north. Arrived at lat. 65 

 and 297, he went towards the north by the Straits of Labra- 

 dor, till he reached 76 and 278 ; and finding himfelf in the 

 Icy Sea, he turned foutlM^'cft to lat. 60 and 235, where he 

 found a flrait, which feparates Afia from America, by which 

 he entered into the South Sea, which he called the Straits of 

 Anian. This palfage ought to be, according to M. Bauche, 

 between William's Sound and Mount St. Elias. The Rufl • 

 ans and Csptain Cook have not obferved it, becaufe it is 

 very narrow. But it is to be wiflied, that this important dif- 

 coverj' fhould be verified, which has been overiojked for two 

 centuries, in fpite of the attempts that have been made on 

 thefe coafts. M. Baucha calls this pafiage tlie Stiaits of 

 Ferrer, 



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Anecdote of the Emperor Charles V. 



..Jon Martin Yanez de Barbuda, mafter of Alcantara, 

 having, about the year 1390, attempted with a final! force to 

 kill all the Moors in Spain, was, together with mofl: of his for- 

 ces, flain in battle ; on his tomb is the following infcription : 

 Aquiyace aquel, in cuyo gran corazon nttnca pavor tu-vo entrada. 

 " Here lies he, into whofe great heart fear never found en- 

 trance ;" which gave occafion to the Em;^eror Charles V. to 

 '"-ly, Efefidalgo jamas deh'io apagar algun,a cnndeJa confus dedos. 

 Then, that gentleman never has fnuffed a candle t with his 

 igers." 



+ Candles were then iifej in the time of Charles V. 



