Chap. III. of the ENGLISH in AMERICA. 
Propofal made them by the Bidiop of ereding a College 
or Seminary at Bermudas^ that they afllfted him in pro- 
curing a Patent for it from King George I. and contribut- 
ed to the Expence of the Undertaking. And the Doc- 
tor, with three Fellows of Trinity College in Dublin^ viz. 
The Reverend Mr. William fhompfon, Jonathan Rogers, 
and James King, Mailers of Art, with feveral of the Doc- 
tor’s Relations, who were People of Fortune, embarked 
for Bermudas, in order to lay the Foundation of the in- 
tended College j but they were unfortunately driven, by 
a Storm, to Long IJland, in the Province of New York \ 
from whence the Dodor, with his Companions, vifited 
Bofton, and feveral other great Towns in New England, 
where they preached, ai>df performed other Parts of their 
Fundion. But the Delign of ereding a College was laid 
afide, the Expence appearing larger than it had been 
firll calculated, and many of thofe who had promifed 
Subfcriptions failing in their Performance •, fo that Dr. 
Berkley found himfelf obliged to return home, and 
was not long after promoted to the See of Cloyne, in 
the Kingdom of Ireland, which he Hill enjoys. 
There remains nothing farther to be faid of this Plan- 
tation, which, though it has flourillied exceedingly, and 
is Hill in a very good Condition, yet has no great Trade 
with Great Britain, at leaft that we can obtain any Ac- - 
count of, though undoubtedly we receive very considera- 
ble Advantages from thence annually, as the People make 
ufe of a confiderable Quantity of our Goods, are cloathed 
with our Manufadures, and employ Tools fent from 
thence in all kinds of Work. There might, perhaps, if 
due Encouragement was given, be a Polfibility of raifing 
feveral rich Commodities in this Country, but more par- 
ticularly two, for which it feems fitter than any of our 
Plantations, viz. Cochineel and Silk ; and with this 
View, as I have been informed, a very worthy Mer- 
chant of this City has colleded, digefted, and printed, 
the bell Accounts that are to be met with on thefe Heads, 
and alfo with refped to Indigo, and has fent them to be 
diflributed at his own Expence in Carolina and the Ber- 
mudas Hands, which is an Inflance of public Spirit that 
deferves to be mentioned with Honour, and it is hoped . 
may be likewife thought worthy of Imitation. A very 
few Attempts of this kind, fupported with Subfcriptions 
inferior to thofe made forfomeDiverfions, might produce 
immenfe public Advantages to this Nation, and prove 
the Means of making multitudes of People happy. 
12. All the Mifcarriages that had happened in at- 
tempting Difcoveries to the North-eafl and North-weft 
for a new Paffage to the Indies, could not fo far dif- 
courage the Merchants of England, as to oblige them to 
lay afide their Defigns of that Sort •, and therefore when 
any Opportunity offered they never failed to lay hold of 
it, in Elopes that fome Time or other they might accom- 
plifh one or both of thefe great Projedts. It was with 
this View that they fitted out Captain Henry Hudfon in 
1607, who undertook to fail diredtly North, which he 
did to the Height of 81 Degrees 30 Minutes, on the 
Coaft of Greenland, where he was on the 1 6th of July, 
the Weather being pretty warm. His Scheme, it feems, 
was to have paffed round that great Tradl of Country, 
which the Danes call Greenland, and falling into DavNs 
Str eights, have returned that way home. After being dif- 
appointed in this, he undertook two Voyages for the Dif- 
covery of a North-eaft Paffage, in which his Condudt 
was very good, though his Succefs no better than that 
of thofe who went before him *, upon which he refolved 
to make an Attempt towards the North-weft. He fail- 
ed on this Voyage April 17th, 1610 i and thus Mr. 
Pricket deferibes the principal Events in that Under- 
taking : 
“We continued fleering North-weft; on the 8th of 
July we raifed Land to the South-weft, covered with 
“ Snow, which our Mailer named DeJire Provokes ly- 
ing in the Latitude of 60 Degrees. Here we heard 
“ theNoifeof a great Overfall of a Tide that came out of 
“ the Land, and were now fenfible that we had been 
“ embayed before ; and we were now fo well acquainted 
“ with the Ice, that in foggy or foul Weather we fought 
“ out the broadeft Hand of Ice, and there anchoring. 
“ we went out and fported upon the Ice, and filled 
‘‘ Water that ftood in Ponds upon the Ice very fweet 
‘‘ and good, being now in the Tldes-way, the Ice 
“ opened, by being firft carried one way and then ano- 
“ ther, whereas in Bays it is immoveable ; and in that 
“ Bay where we had been fo troubled with lee^ we faw 
“ many of thofe Mountains of Ice a-ground in fixty or 
feventy Fathom Water. We ftill plied to Weftward 
“ as the Ice would give us leave, and fearing a Stormj 
“ 'We found an Harbour at the Weft-End of an Hand, 
“ whereunto we went at a full Sea, over a Rock, which 
“ had then two Fathom and a half of Water upon it^ 
“ and the next Morning was two Fathoms above Water. 
‘‘ Our Mailer named it The IJland of God’s Mercies, 
“ The Water flows here better than four Fathoms, and 
“ the Floods come from the North, flowing eight the 
“ Change Day, Latitude 62" 9'. Then plying to 
“ South- weft we were on the 1 6th in the Latitude of 
“ 58° 50', but found ourfelves embayed and much pef- 
“ tered with Ice ; whereupon we flood to the South- weft 
“ until we faw the Land, which our Mailer named 
“ Hold with Hope ; and being gotten again into a clear 
“ Sea, our Mailer ftood to the Weft along the South 
Shore, and raifed three Capes or Head-Lands, lying 
“ one beyond another, which he named Cape Henry, 
“ Cape James, and ^een Anne’s Foreland ; we alfo 
“ raifed a high Hill, which he named Mount Charles. 
“ We paffed on in Sight of the South Shore until we 
“ raifed a fair Head- Land, (which our Mafter took to 
“ be part of the main North Land, but is an Hand) 
“ and named it Deep’s Cape, and the Land on the South 
“ Side now falling away to the South makes another 
“ Cape or Head-Land, which our Mafter called Wor- 
“ fenham’s Cape. 
“The Mafter fent me, the Carpenter, and fome 
“ others, afhore near Deep’s Cape ; we there faw fome 
“ Deer, tv/elve or fixteen in a Herd, but could not' 
“ come within Shot of them ; we found Plenty of 
“ Sorrel and Scurvy-Grafs, and faw fome round 
“ Hills of Stones like to Grafs-Cocks ; and when we 
“ came to them I turned off the uppermoft Stone, and 
“ found them hollow within, and full of Fowls hanged 
“ by their Necks ; we turned back, and told the Mafter 
“ what we had feen, and what Refrefhment might be 
“ had •, intreating him to flay a Day or two in this 
“ Place, .but he was not pleafed with the Motion, nor 
“ could be perfuaded to ftay. Then Handing Southward 
“ we loft Sight of the main Land that we had all this 
“ while followed, and came into fhallow Water, broken 
“ Ground, and Rocks, and paffed down fo far South- 
“ ward till we had Land on both Sides, and the Water 
“ fhoaling a-pace,we came to an Anchor. From hence we 
“ ftood back again towards the North ; and one Day a 
“ Debate arifing concerning our coming into this Bay, 
“ and how we fliould get out again, the Mafter took 
“ Occafion to revive old Matters, and to difplace Ro- 
“ bert Ivet, his Mate, and Boatfwain, for Words fpoken 
“ on the firft great Bay of Ice, and made Robert Bilet 
“ his Mate, and William Wilfon our Boatfwain. 
“We plied to and fro from the North to the South, 
S and thence to the North again, till we came to the 
“ Shole- Water, where we anchored in feven Fathom, 
“ and there lay eight Days ; in all which Time we could 
“ not get one Hour to weigh our Anchor % but the 
“ eighth Day the Wind beginning to ceafe, oUr Mafter 
“ would have the Anchors up again againft the Minds 
“ of all that knew what belonged thereunto; fo to it 
“ we went, and when we had brought it a Peak, a Sea 
“ took her, and call us all off from the Capftern, and 
“ hurt many of us ; here we loft our Anchor, and 
“ if the Carpenter had not been nimble we had loft our 
“ Cable too ; but he fearing fuch a Matter, Was ready 
“ with his Ax, and fo cut it from thence. We ftood to 
“ the South, and divers Courfes, until we came to a Bay 
“ on the North Shore, where we anchored. Whilewelay 
“ here we faw a Ledge of Rocks to the Southward, 
“ about a League long, which were covered at full Sea ; 
“ for a ftrong Tide fet in here* At lidnight we 
“ weighed, and ftood to go out as we came in, and 
“ had not gone long before the Carpenter told the 
“ Mafter 
