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ADDENDA to the other Inftances of reaching high 

 Northern Latitudes, p. 40. 



CAPTAIN ELLIOT, of the Sea Horfe Indiaman (noW 

 employed as an ordnance tranfport) during the paffage from 

 New York to England in September, 1780, informed Dr. Morris 

 and fome general officers, 



" That, in the beginning of June, 1756, he ferved as mate 011 

 " board the King George Greenland (hip, and nihed for whales 

 " in N. Lat. 82. 30. when the fea was perfectly clear and open. 

 " Captain Elliot at the fame time ob ferved, that the attempt to 

 " proceed to high Northern Latitudes mould not be made later 

 " than the time abovementioned." 



There is a very fcarce tract, in the Bodleian Library, entitled, 

 N. W. Foxe, or Foxe from theN. W. PafTage a ; to which is an- 

 nexed, a map representing three iflands in 85. and nearly N. of 

 Spitsbergen. 



Foxe failed on this attempt in 1631, and had a letter from 

 Charles I. to the Emperor of Japan ; this navigator having in* 

 tended to return to Europe by the Eafl Indies. 



One of the articles to which his crew were obliged to fubfcribe 

 was the following : 



" No one mail fpeak doubtfully or defpairing words about the 



fuccefs of the voyage." 



a Quarto. London, 1638* 



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