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fouthern extremity, on an ifle off that point, in lat. 59; on both fides 
deeply indented with bays, bounded by icy promontories. Many of thefe bays 
had been parts of pervious ftreights, which had divided the country into feveral 
iflands ; but are now totally obftructed with ice. Befides that I before mentioned, 
was one in lat. 63, called Bar-/und; and that in 62. 50, immortalized by the 
name of our celebrated failor Frobi/her, who penetrated into it fixty leagues, in 
his firft voyage in 1576, in his fearch for a paflage to Cathaya; but imagined that 
Afia bounded the right fide, and America the left *. He met with inhabitants, 
defcribes them and their ceconomy, and is particular about their great dogs, and 
their ufe of them in drawing their fledges. In his fecond voyage he found a 
Narwhal dead on the fhore, and has given a figure of it. This horne,’ fays 
he, ‘ is to be feene and referved as a jewel by the Queens Majefties commandemet, 
in her wardrop of robes +.”— The original map of his voyages is a fingular 
fketch of erroneous fuppofition. He makes his ftreights reach to the Icy Sea, 
oppofite to what he calls Cathaya, juft to the north of what is made to refemble 
the new-difcovered ftreights of Bering ; which, in the map, are called thofe of 
Anian ; and accidentally gives them a tolerably juft form {. Thofe of Anian are 
equally fabulous with thofe of de Fuca, but of prior invention ; and, like them, 
were fayed to have been a paflage from the South to the North fea||. Queen 
Elizabeth beftowed on his difcoveries the name of Meta Incognita. 
Greenland was re-fettled with Norwegians in 1721, by the zeal of the Reverend 
Mr. Hans Egede, the Aréfic apoftle §. He continued, till 1735, preaching the 
Gofpel to the poor natives; and had not only the happinefs of feeing his labors 
bleffed with effect, but his example followed by a numerous fet of miffionaries, 
who have formed (on the weftern fide only) many fettlements, which flourifh 
even to thisday. Mr. Egede returned to Denmark, founded a feminary for ftu- 
dents in the Greenland language, from which miffionaries were to be drawn; and 
finifhed his pious life in 1754. 
At Cape Farewell begins the vaft opening between Greenland and Terra de La- 
brador, which leads to Hudjfon’s Bay. Between the weft fide of Greenland and cer- 
tain vaft iflands, are Davis’s Streights, which lead to Baffin’s Bay. Thefe iflands 
* «A true Difcourfe of the late Voyages of Difcoverie for finding a Paflage to Cathaya by the 
© north-weft, under the Conduct of Martin Frobifber, General. Printed by Henry Bynnyman, 1578. 
Firft Voyage, p. 48. 
+ The Same, Second Voyage, p. 19. 
t In the fame book. 
|| See an account of thefe imaginary ftreights in Drage’s Voy. to Hudfon’s Streights, vol. ii. 68. 
§ Crantz, 1.279. 285. 
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