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"charts, until it was restored a few years ago. The whales spouting 

 "between the meridians of longitude of this old map indicate the 

 wealth which Arctic discoveries were even then bringing to the 

 bold merchant adventurers of Holland and England. Meanwhile 

 Frobisher, Hudson and Davis were extending our knowledge in a 

 westerly direction. The chart of the Zeni was used by Frobisher 

 and Davis, and puzzled them in their discoveries. When the former 

 reached the coast of Greenland he supposed it to be the Frisland 

 of the Zeni, and Davis took it for a new country altogether, calling 

 it "Desolation." Then the inlet discovered by Frobisher north of 

 Hudson's Bay was turned into a strait to the north of " Desola- 

 tion," leading from the Atlantic to Davis Strait. The Engroen- 

 land of the Zeni was placed to the north of Frobisher Strait, and 



6. Hudson's Davis's "Desolation" to the south. Still, with all these 



nap of 1612. . 



(H.s.) errors, the two shores of Davis Strait were correctly 

 delineated. 



6. Baffin's memorable voyage, in 1616, would have still further 

 extended the knowledge of Arctic geography if his map had been 

 preserved. But, owing to the unwisdom of old Purchas, it was 

 lost to his contemporaries and to posterity. The consequence was 

 that his magnificent discoveries were obscured, and, indeed, 

 almost forgotten until the present century, when his fame was 

 completely vindicated by the voyage of Sir John Ross in 1818 

 over the same ground. 



7. At the opening of the last century, the Dutch seamen and 

 cartographers had corrected and improved the former knowledge, 

 if they had not materially increased it.. Van Keulen, in 1707, 



7. The chart published an improved map of Spitzbergen, showing. 



for the first time, the whole of the east coast, the Seven 



(G.M.) ' Islands to the north, and the mysterious Gilles Land ; 

 but the Wiche Land, discovered by the English in 1617, and 

 shown on the chart of Purchas, has disappeared. Parry, in 1827, 

 boie testimony to the excellence of this delineation of Spitzbergen 

 by Van Keulen. The same able cartographer published a chare 



