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fibly different there from what I found it a few more degrees 

 Southerly. 



2d. I have for many years ufed the Greenland fimery ; and 

 have, by experience, found thofe feas the lead incumbered with 

 ke betwixt the forepart of May till July.. 



3d. The fame year I failed to the latitude above-mentioned, 

 I found in May, to the Weft of Spitsbergen, a fine open 

 fea, the wind then blowing South-weft, and the fea (as far as I 

 could obferve from the mall-head) was little incumbered with 

 ke, which fully convinced me that there was a probability of 

 proceeding to a very high latitude 



4th. I have obferved, that let the wind blow from what quar- 

 ter it will, it is at times impregnated with froft, fnow, &c. ; but 

 when molt fo I am not able to determine. As for rain, I do not 

 recollect ever feeing any there. The weather I have generally 

 found mildeft when the wind blows Southerly. As for periodical 

 winds, I do not fuppofe there are any in Greenland. 



IV. From Captain John Greenshaw. 



In regard to the Queries fent to me, all I have to fay is, that it 

 a paffage to the North Pole is ever to be accomplifhed, my opi- 

 nion is, it muft be obtained by going betwixt Greenland and 

 Nova Zembla, as I myfelf have been to the Weftward of Green- 

 hind, and reached fo far to the Northward as 8.2° of North lati- 

 tude, and to the North and North-weft of that found nothing 

 but a folid body of ice : my opinion, therefore, is, that it is im- 

 poffible ever to obtain a paffage that way. Captain John Cra- 

 croft, in the South Sea Company's time was once fo far as 83 0 



1 The South Sea Company fent a fmall number of fhips,. for about nine 

 years, on the Greenland fifhery,. 



North 



