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voyagers, who diligently fought for the latitudes, 

 &c. pointed out. 



To the above account of Hudfon's Bay, I 

 fliall make bold to fubjoin an extrad of Mr. 

 Ellis's voyage thither, when, he is fpeak* 

 ing of the fartheft part to which they went in * 

 Wagers' Straits, he fays, " 1 canot help, how- 

 ever, taking notice, that in afcending thofe moun^ 

 tains, we had at once as great, as gloomy, and a&3 

 awful a profped, as perhaps ever aftoniflied mor- 

 tal eyes. While we walked along the beach, 

 the ridged rocks above feemed pendent over our 

 heads ; in fon^e places there were falls of water 

 dafhing from cliff to cliff ; from others hung 

 prodigious icicles in rows one behind another, 

 like the pipes of a vaft organ ; but the moft 

 tremendous part of the fcene was the fhattered 

 rocks and craggs which lay at our feet, and ap- 

 peared plainly to have burilfrom the mountain's 

 tops, through the expanfive power of the rigo- 

 rous froils, and fo rolled with inexprefTible fury 

 down the fides, till they reached thofe placea 

 where their ruins now lie. I call them ruins, for 

 fuch they properly were^ and if there is fome- 



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