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that, if the apprehenlions of the mate had not prevented, he 

 might poffibly have reached the N. Pole ; and how could he have 

 conceived this, unlefs he had imagined himfelf to have been in a 

 very high Northern latitude ? 



But it may be poffibly faid, that this voyage took place above 

 twenty years fince, and that therefore at fuch a diftance of time 

 no one's memory can be relied upon. 



It is true indeed that Mac-Callam made this attempt in 1 75 1 1 

 but Mr. Watt continued his fervices the following year in a 

 Greenland fhip, and therefore, traveriing nearly the fame feas, 

 muft have renewed the recollection of what he had experienced in 

 the preceding voyage, though he did not then proceed further 

 than N. lat. 80. 



This however brings it only to 1752; but I have already ftated, 

 that within thefe twelve years he mentioned all the particulars 

 above related to his brother officer, Lieutenant Cartwright. 



Mr. Watt alfo frequently converfed with Captain Mac-Callam 

 about this voyage after both of them had quitted the Greenland 

 mips ; Mr. Watt riling regularly to be a Mailer and Commander 

 in His Majefty's fervice, and Captain Mac-Callam becoming Pur- 

 fer of the Tweed man of war. 



It fo happened, that in the year, of the expedition againft Bel- 

 lifle, Mr. Watt, Captain Mac-Callam, and Mr. Walker (com- 

 monly called Commodore Walker, from his having commanded 

 the Royal Family privateers in the late war), met together at 

 Portfmouth, when they talked over the circumftances of this 

 Greenland voyage, which Mr. Walker was interefted in, by hav- 

 ing been the principal owner. of the Campbeltown. 



Mr. Watt and Captain Mac-Callam met alfo eleven years ago 

 in London, when they as ufual converfed about the having 

 reached fo high a Northern latitude. 



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