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This fame captain, in the fhip St. George, was, on the 15th 

 of June 1773, in N. lat. 8i° 16% by a very accurate obfervation 

 with an approved Hadley's quadrant, in which he alfo made the 

 proper allowance for the refraction in high Northern latitudes, at 

 which time feeing fome whales fpouting to the Northward, he 

 purfued them for five hours, fo that he muft have reached 81 f, 

 when the fea was open to the Weftward and E.N.E. as far as he 

 could diftinguim from the matt-head. His longitude was then 

 8 degrees E. from the meridian of London. 



Captain Robin fon is a very intelligent feaman, and hath navi- 

 gated the Greenland feas thefe twenty years, except during the 

 interval that he was employed by the Hudfon's Bay Com- 

 pany d . , 



I could add fome other, perhaps interettmg, particulars, which 

 I have received from Captain Robinfon, with regard to Spitz- 

 bergen and the Polar Seas ; I will only mention, however, that 

 he thinks he could fpend a winter not uncomfortably in the mofr. 

 Northern parts we are acquainted with % as there are three or 

 four fmall fettlements of Ruffians in this country, for the fake 

 of the fkins of quadrupeds, which are then more valuable than if 

 the animal is taken in fummer, 



d He lived during this winter in Queen-ftreet, near Greenland-dock, 

 Rotherhithe ; he hath failed, probably, by this time on the Greenland 

 Miery. With regard to his having been in N. lat. 8i° 30', in June 17 73^ 

 he can prove it by his journal, if that evidence Ihould be required. 



c See the Narrative of eight failors who wintered in Greenland A. D. 

 1630, and who all returned in health to England the enfuing fummer. 

 Churchill's Voyage, vol. IV. p. 811. 



They did not fee the fun from the 14th of October till the 3d of Febru- 

 ary, By the laft day of January however they had day-light of 8 hours* 

 They wintered in N. Lat, 77 — 4 0 . Ibid, 



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