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accompanied by the chief mate, whilft the fecond mate together 

 with Mr. Adams went to the fore-top maft head, from whence 

 they faw a fea as free from ice as any part of the Atlantic ocean, 

 and it was the joint opinion of them all, that they might have 

 reached the N. Pole. 



The fhip then flood to the Southward, and twelve hours after- 

 wards Mr. Adams had a fecond good obfervation (the Sun beneath 

 the Pole) when their latitude was 8 2° a>. In both thefe obfer- 

 vations, Mr. Adams made an allowance of 5' for the refraction, 

 which, he fays, was his captain's rule, who was now on his 

 59th or 60th voyage to the Greenland feas. 



In the year 1756, Mr. James Montgomery, now a merchant 

 in Prefcot-ftreet, Goodman's-fields, but then mafter of the Pro- 

 vidence, followed the whales during the month of June till he 

 reached N. lat. 83, by obfervation. Another Greenland mafter 

 informs me, that he remembers well the ice packed much to 

 the Weftward, but that the fea was open to the Northward 

 during that fummer. 



In 1762, David Boyd, then mate of the brig Betfy, was 

 driven by a gale of wind from 79 to 82, odd minutes, by obfer- 

 vation ; during all which time he was befet in ice. A Greenland 

 mafter has likewife told me, that he recollects many other mips 

 were driven to the N. E. from their fifhing flations during that, 

 feafon. 



Mr. Jonathan Wheatley, now mafter of a Greenland fhip, 

 was in 1766 off Hakluyt's Headland h , whence, not meeting 

 with fuccefs, he failed N. W. to Si 1, in which latitude he could 

 fee no ice in any direction whatfoever from the mail: head, 

 though there was a very heavy fea from the N. E. 



Mr. Wheatley alfo informs me, that whilft he was . off the 

 Coaft of Greenland, three Dutch Captains told him, that a fhip 



b He was then on board a fhip called the Grampus.. 



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