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POSTSCRIPT. 



January 8, 1775 = 



HAVING procured the three following inftances before the 

 reading of my paper was finifhed, it may not be improper 

 to add them in a poftlcript. 



In Harris's Voyages' 1 is the following paffage, " By the Dutch 

 Journals they get into N. lat. 88° 56', and the fea open." 



I have within thefe few days afked Dr. Campbell, the very 

 able compiler of thefe voyages, upon what authority he inferted 

 this account ? Who informs me, that he received it from Hol- 

 land about 30 years ago, as being an extract from the journals 

 produced to the States General in 1665, on the application for a 

 difcovery of the N. E. paffage to Japan, which was fruftrated by 

 the Dutch Eaft-India Company. 



In the Journal des Sfavans, for the month of October 1774', 

 is likewife the following paragraph : 



" To thefe inftances produced by Mr. Barrington" [of naviga- 

 tors having reached high Northern latitudes], " our countrymen 

 " (viz. the Dutch) could add many others. An able officer in 

 " the Englifh fervice hath in his cuftody the journals of a 

 " Greenland mip, wherein he hath remarked, that in the month 

 " of May he had penetrated as far as 82 0 20', when the fea was 

 " open." 



My third and laft inftance is that of Captain Batefon, who 

 iailed in 1773, from Liverpool, in a fhip called the Whale, on 

 the Greenland nfliery, and who, on June 14, reached N. lat. 



- v oh H. p. 453. ; Part II. p. 503. 



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