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siightly to the south. The winds, however, drove the ice upon 

 him and he had to retreat towards the Greenland coast and finally 

 he gave up the attempt in that latitude and reached his old 

 anchorage beneath Mount Raleigh. He then explored the 

 Cumberland Strait hoping to find a passage but the ice was too 

 strong a barrier. He returned to the mouth and sailed south- 

 ward. He passed Frobisher Bay and Hudson Strait noting as he 

 crossed the latter ' ' that the sea fell down into the gulf with a 

 mighty overfall and roaring and with divers circular motions like 

 whirlpools, in some sort as forcible streams pass through the 

 arches of a bridge." 



On this voyage he named the moi;t northerly point he reach- 

 ed in Greenland " Sander.son his hope of a North West Passage," 

 (now in our maps cut down to ' 'Sanderson's Hope, ' '■) after William 

 Sanderson the London merchant whose public spirit had induced 

 him to supply the means for the expeditions with which Davis's 

 name is connected. He also named the Cumberland Islands, 

 I^umle3^'s Inlet and Cape Chidley, the latter after a Worthy of 

 the times deeply interested in Arctic exploration. He reached 

 England in the middle of September and his further history con- 

 cerneth us not in this connection. Canon Taylor says, "Davis 

 needs no tomb-stone, as he has written his name conspicuously 

 upon the map of the world. ' ' 



In the 17th century, after Queen Elizabeth's death, the re- 

 cords show 20 English vo3^ages of discovery, 8 Danish, 6 Dutch, 

 5 Russian, and one Portuguese, in all 40, just one half of them 

 English : Spanish and French dropping out altogether. 



Of these 40, the ones of interest to us in connection with our 

 District of Franklin are those of Hudson, Button, By lot, Bafiin, 

 and Fox. 



Henry Hudson claims the next place in chronological order, 

 as one of the navigators whose ' ' western sailings ' ' are our ' ' title 

 deeds " to the northern fringe of Canada. But though he named 

 Salisbury Island, one of the southern islands of Franklin District 

 and therefore comes within the charmed circle of those whose 

 fame is connected with the District which is to-night our special 



