5.8 THE GEOGRAPHICAL EVOLUTION OF LABRADOR. 



and had become acquainted with part of Hudson's Bay 

 between 1558 and 1569. In 1577 Frobisher had by 

 chance entered the strait. In 1602 Weymouth had 

 sailed nearly a hundred leagues into it, from Hatton's 

 Headland to the neighborhood of Hope's Advance Bay. 



" Tlie whole east coast of North America, frorri 38° 

 north to the mouth of Hudson's Strait, had been sur- 

 veyed by Sebastian Cabot in 1498, and part of it before, 

 in 1497, by his father and him. Others had rediscov- 

 ered various parts. Thus the east of Newfoundland had 

 been explored by Cortereal in 1501 ; the south coast, 

 by some fishers from Normandy and Brittany in 1504 

 and 1508. The mouth of the St. Lawrence had also 

 been visited by Cortereal and by these French mariners. 

 The river, nearly up to the lakes, and all the surround- 

 ing country, had been thoroughly explored by Jacques 

 Cartier in 1534 and 1535, and afterwards by Roberval 

 and Cartier. 



" The Sandbanks near the mouth of the St. Lawrence, 

 and the fishing-stations along the Newfoundland coast, 

 were frequented by the English, Portuguese, French, 

 and Spaniards." (H. Hudson, Hakluyt Soc. cxliv.) 



After Henry Hudson's voyage, no further explora- 

 tions were made of the Labrador coast, so far as we can 

 ascertain, until the time of rear-Admiral Bayfield, of the 

 British Navy, who, during the years 181 5 to 1827, sur- 

 veyed and mapped this coast as well as the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence and Newfoundland. His researches are em- 

 bodied in the English Admiralty charts, from which the 

 maps of the Labrador peninsula in use up to about 1880 

 are copied. Of the advances lately made by British and 

 Moravian surveys mention has previously been made. 



