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Coast, and extends from Lat. 57° to 54°, supposed to be the sainc hinn d ;ii in 

 Captain Davis's Second Voyage. ISTo bad Accident liai)]K'iKMl to the \'rss«I, and 

 the men kept in perfect health during the whole Voyage and returned all well. 



11. Not satisfied with the results of this attempt, Captain Swainc 

 again sailed in the Argo, the following spring, and the l*eniisyl\ ania 

 Journal and Weekly Advertiser of Thursday, October 24, 1754, ]iiil>- 

 lished in Philadelphia, says : 



On Sunday last arrived here the Schooner Argo, Capt. Swainc, who was 

 fitted out in the Spring, on the discovery of a IsT. W. Passage, but having three of 

 his Men killed on the Labrador Coast, returned without success. 



The Gazette also says : 



On Sunday last arrived here the schooner Argo from a second Attempt of 

 a Discovery of the Northwest Passage, but without success. 



A full "Extract from a Journal of this voyage of 1753" will be 

 found in the quarto volume on "The Great Probability of the North- 

 west Passage," edited by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King, 

 London, 1768. It embraces 22 pages of Jefferys' Quarto Treatise. 

 In the extract will be found also the statement that a Captain Taylor, 

 in a sloop of about thirty-five tons, was met with July 9, 1 75."<, in 

 the same waters somewhere in about lat. 56° and long. 56° 42', which 

 sloop had been fitted out from Rhode Island to go in pursuit of a North- 

 west Passage, and if not successful to come down on the coast of 

 Labrador. 



In Jefferys' volume, p. xi, will also be found the following : 

 The voyage of 1752 was made from Philadelphia in a schooner of about sixty 

 tons, and fifteen persons aboard, fitted out on a subscription of the merchants of 

 Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Boston, on a generous plan, agreeable to 

 proposals made them, with no view of any monopoly which they opposed, not to inter- 

 fere with the Hudson's Bay trade, or to carry on a clandestine trade with the natives 

 of Greenland, but to discover a Northwest Passage and explore the Labrador 

 coast, at that time supposed to be locked up under a pretended right, and not 



