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North latitude, and to the Northward of Greenland, and met 

 with nothing but a folid field of ice. And in regard to the winds 

 and weather, it freezes continually ; but the wind from the 

 Southward doth commonly bring rain and thick foggy weather, 

 which is chiefly in the latter end of June and July. If you are 

 to the Northward and Weftward of Greenland, the wind from 

 the N. W. and N. N. W. doth always open the ice ; but at the 

 fame time, if it come to blow any time from that quarter, packs 

 it clofe in with the land ; and the winds from the Southward 

 have the contrary effect* 



V. 



The Queries anfwered by Andrew Fisher, mafter of a Green- 

 land mip at Hull, who has been twenty-four voyages from 

 England to the Greenland feas. 



i ft. Said Andrew Fifher fays, that in the year 1746, being on 

 board the fhip Ann and Elizabeth from London, on a voyage to 

 the Greenland feas, he fleered from Hakluyt's Headland in Spitz- 

 bergen North and N. N. W. in clear water till they were in lati- 

 tude 8 2 0 34', where they met with a loofe pack of ice, and made 

 their fifhery, or otherwife they might have got through that 

 loofe ice, and doubt not, but that they might have gone confi- 

 derably further North ; they returned, however, in clear water 

 to Spitzbergen. 



2d. Beit feafons of the year are, to be at or near Spitzbergen 

 from the 15th of May to the 1 ft of June, though the years dif- 

 fer, and the laying of the ice exceedingly ; fome years it is not 

 poflible to get North of 8o° ; at other times you may meet with 

 very little ice, which is chiefly owing to the weather in winter, 

 and the winds in April and May. 



3d. There 



