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posed to adopt to the extent that sliould render him as independ- 

 ent as they. 

 Aided hy a few friends, suppUed with a boat, a few necessarv 

 fitilic instruments, guns and ammunition, he sailed ns passen- 

 ii the whaling Bark George Henry, of New London, Ct., 

 ■-'9, 1860, for the scene of his Labors. 



vessel in which he took passage prosecuted her voj-age 



■ i' west side of Davis Straits, and remained during her 



ill a small bay situated in N. lat. 6'2° 52', W. long. 60° 05'. 



tiiis point Mr. Hall proposed, on starting, a journey far 



• "ut owing to the accidental loss of his boat and the death 



'^'^^ intelligent interpreter, tlie original plan was abandoned, 



''■<Uie confined his researches to the country adjacent— going 



over and minutely examining an area of some three hundred 



'"lies west, and about seventy-five miles soutli from the place of 



lias not been seen or examined by any white man since the vears 

 1-J73-6. 



Hakluyt's Voyages, published in London in tlje year ICOO, gives 

 ^^11 account of the Voyages of Sir :\[artin Frobis'ber to tlic^e re- 

 gions where he discovered a Strait bearing his name and at- 

 tempted to found a colonj^ An examination of the English 

 Admiralty Chart of 1853, sheet one, or the fine American Chart 

 irom the United States Hydrographic Office, published with the 

 volume of the Griunell Arctic Expedition under Lieut. DeHaven, 

 ^'Ml show in faint outline the so-called Frobisber's Straits, sup- 

 posed to afford a passage from the ocean westward to the further 

 part of Hudson's Straits. Navigators however have always 

 chosen the latter in passing to and from Hudson's Bay and vi- 

 '':'i^fy, and it may be well that they have done so, for the travels 

 '" ^' ^ Hall have proved this to be" not a strait but a bay or iu- 

 ■■'lilarto Cumberland Inlet, just north on the same coast, 

 l-'robisber's Bay, as we must now call it, is a noble sheet of 

 ■ Mr. Hall, with dog-team eledges in winter and boats :' 



ttoe _ 



indubitable proofs of the temporar 



^ of the whites nearly three hundred years ago, and heard 

 -'.u the Esquiraeaux we'll autiientieated traditions of their at- 

 ■ ;'pt and its failure. 



, ^^Q entrance to this bay is Just north of Eesolution Island, at 



t^e mouth of Hudson's Straits,— a large island nearly blocks the 



r '-lae, but once past this it stretches away west-northwest 



" t'.vo hundred niiles, with an average width of about fifty 



Numerous islands stud the coasts ; an immense glacier is 



■ southern side, a mountain fall of fossils at the western ex- 



