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thirty years longer, and retain my faculties, I fhall recollect with. 

 j>recifion every latitude which I have already ftated in this paper. 



What credit, however, is to be given to all thefe narratives is 

 entirely fubmitted to the Society, as I have flated them moft fully 

 with every circumftance which may invalidate, as well as fupport 

 them ; and if I have endeavoured to corroborate them by the ob- 

 fervations which I have made, it is only becaufe I believe them. 



It mould feem upon the whole of the inquiries on this 

 point, that it is very uncertain when mips may proceed far to 

 the Northward of Spitsbergen, and that it depends not only 

 upon the feafon, but other accidents, when the Polar feas may be 

 fo free from ice as to permit attempts to make difcoveries 



Poffibly, therefore, if a king's officer was fent from year to year 

 on board one of the Greenland mips, the lucky opportunity 

 might be feized, and the Navy Board might pay for the ufe of the 

 fveflel, if it was taken from the whale fimery, in order to proceed 

 as far as may be towards the North Pole. 

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' Captain. Robinfon hath informed me, that -at the latter end 'of laft 

 .April a Whitby Ihip was in N. lat. 80, without having been materially 

 •43bftruc"ted hy the ice. Capt. Marihall was alio- -off Hakluyt's Headland 

 fo early as the 25th of April, without obfervipg much -ice. 



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