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The Southern parts of this country were difcovered by Sir 

 Hugh Willoughby, A. D. 1553; after which, no Engliih mips 

 were fent on that coaft for nearly fifty years. In the beginning 

 of the laft century, however, a competition arofe between the 

 Englifh and Dutch, with regard to the whale fifhery, and the 

 Englifh drove the Dutch from moft of the harbours, under the 

 right of nrft difcoverers r , in which they were fupported by royai 

 inftrucliions ; fo that the Dutch were obliged to feek for new 

 ftations, whereas the Englifh were commonly in poflemon of the 

 Greenland ports, which they confidered as their own s . 



Did Mr. Oldenburgh difbelieve the Dutchman's relation, be- 

 caufe ice is frequently met with to the Southward of N. lat. 80 ? 



Ice is commonly feen upon the great bank of Newfoundland, 

 and the harbour of Louiiburgh is often covered with it, which is 

 only in N. lat. 46 ; yet Davis and Baffin have penetrated, under 

 nearly the fame meridians, beyond 70. 



I will now fuppofe the tables changed between the two hemi- 

 fpheres of our globe, and that a Southern difcoverer, meeting with 

 ice upon the banks of Newfoundland, returns to his own hemi- 

 fphere fully imprened with the impoffibility of proceeding much 

 to the Northward of N. lat. 46 ; would not his countrymen be 



* It is alfo affigned in the Supplement to Wood and Martens' Voyages^ 

 p. 179, 8vo. 1694. as a reafon why the Engliili never proceeded further 

 than 78 on the E. coaft of Spitzbergen, becauie the Dutch were com- 

 monly fuperior on that fide of the ifland. 



Robert Bacon of Crowmers in Norfolk was the firft difcoverer alfo 

 of Iceland. See the Itinerary of William of Worcefter, p. 311. Cam- 

 bridge, 1778, octavo. 



3 See Purchas, pajfim. Whilft thefe difputes continued, the Dutch 

 often fent fhips of war to protect their Greenland traders, which accounts 

 for Dr. Dallie's failing in fuch a veffel to 88, as I have dated in my 

 former paper. 



D deceived 



