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tlope ; fo that to make out the Point, that he had fo far 
followed his Inftrudlions in meeting the Tide of Flood, 
he has manifeftly and faifely impoled upon the Public in 
his Chart, by making a Streight and Tide where there 
Was none. 
To fliew that he has given a falfe Account of this 
Tide and frozen Streight I mil ft obferve. That when 
he fent down the Lieutenant andMafter to look out for 
a Cove at the Mouth of Wager Rmer^ they were inclofed 
in the Ice, and drew up the Boat upon a large Piece of 
Ice, which was carried by the Tide of Ebb to the South- 
eaftward, clofe by the Shore, about Cape Dobhs \ and 
when the Tide flacked they rowed over with the Flood 
to the North Shore, to get into the Eddy out of the 
Current, and next Day went up the River. Again, 
When the Ship failed up the River they were becalmed, 
and were afraid of being forced up again by the Return 
of the Flood *, upon which they towed with their Boats 
ahead, and plied with the Ship’s Oars with all their Force 
to the North-eaftward to get out of the way of the Tide 
of Flood ; but if the Flood had come from the North- 
eaft, they would have been juft in the way of the Tide of 
Flood, and to have avoided it they ought to have fteered 
their Courfe South-eaft:, to Cape Dobbs ; fo that both the 
Accounts tally, that the Flood came from the South- 
weft round Cape Dobbs. At half an Hour after two, on 
the 6th of Atigtift.^ he ordered the Lieutenant afhore at 
the low Beach, to try the Tide, being then four Miles 
from the Shore j at three he made the Signal for him to 
come on aboard before he got to the Shore ; but he was 
fo near as to report. That the Tide had fallen two Feet ; 
fo that he feemed to repent his having fent him to try the 
Tide, left he _ ftiould ftnd a contrary Tide to what he 
gave out. Tho’ the Lieutenant, wlien he got aboard, told 
him it was ebbing Water, and that the Ebb went to the 
South- weft ward, yet he minuted it down in. his Log- 
Book, and printed it fo in his Defence., that it was flow- 
ing Water, and the Flood came fr^m Eaftward ; but 
in his Journal he fays, it had ebbed two Feet, and the 
Flood came from the Eaftward. 
The Captain’s Clerk, Gunner, and Carpenter, went 
afhore at Cape Frigid the 8th of Augufi, about ten in the 
Morning ; and after going fifteen Miles into the Country 
returned to the Boat about feven at Night, when he found 
it was low Water, and rofe fifteen Feet, which being 
three Days and a half after the Full Moon, aWeft-fouth- 
weft Moon made low Water, and confequently a North- 
north-weft Moon made high Water and having afcer- 
tained that a Weft by North Moon made high Water 
in Wager River, the Tide at Cape Frigid being five Points 
later, could not raife that Tide *, for the Tide, the fur- 
ther it flows, is always the later in flowing •, and there- 
fore the Tide in Wager River, being at leaft three 
Hours fooner than at Cape Frigid, it could not poffibly 
be caufed by any Tide from thence, nor could the Tide 
near Brook Cobham, where a Weft Moon made high 
Water, be caufed from thatTide for the fame Reafon, it 
being above four Hours fooner than the Tide at Cape 
Frigid. 
It appears alfo, that there was no Tide or Current in 
the Bay above Cape Hope *, and the Gunner, who was 
afhore with the Captain, went with the Carpenter two 
or tliree Miles farther than the Captain and Clerk, even 
to the very Shore of what he called the Frozen Streight, 
and confequently knew it better than the Captain. He 
fays it Was an Ifland they were upon, and the Streight 
was only an Arm of the Sea that furrounded the Ifland, 
and detached it from the low Beach j that it was not 
above three Leagues wide on the Eaft fide, and full of 
Hands ; that the Ice was frozen fail from Side to Side ; 
fo that it is impoflible fo great a Quantity of Water 
could pafs through that Paffage if it had a Communi- 
cation with HudfoAs Streights by Cape Comfort, as would 
fill fo large a Bay as that above Cape Flops (the Streight 
from Cape Hope to Wager River) all that River for thirty 
or forty Leagues, which was from four to twelve Leagues 
wide, and the whole Coaft of the Welcome to Brook 
Cobham above fixty Leagues, and that from a Streight 
which was but three Leagues wide, and had many Hands 
in it j fo that the Streightsexclufive of the Hands, was not 
probably four Miles wide. Befides, had fo much Vfater 
flowed from that Streight, as he has laid down in his 
Chart, it muft have caufed a very rapid Current in the 
Bay above Cape Hope, it being, in the direbt Courfe of 
the Tide. The Captain of the Difcovery alfo, in his 
Anfwer allows, that the Opening ol the Streight he faw, 
which was betwixt Cape Frigid and the Low Beach was 
not above three Miles wide, and ho fuch Tide flowed 
there as in Wager River, although it was fo narrow in 
that Place. 
This alfo accounts for thatArm of the Sea’s being frozen 
which furrounded the Ifland, becaufe there was no Tide 
or Current there to break it up. It alfo appears from 
the Lieutenant who was left on board to command when 
the Captain went afliore, that, at eleven o’Clock, after 
the Captain left the Ship, a ftrong Current forced him to 
northward, which muft have been the Flood, as it was 
not high Water until one o’Clock. And it appears 
alfo the fame from the Men who were left with the Boat ; 
for upon the Captain’s Return to the Boat he aflced them 
which way the Flood let, and they laid to the North- 
ward ; which he contradidted, and faid, they were 
miftaken, for it could not be fo. So that from all thefe 
Fadls, as well as from Reafon, it appears, that the Tide 
of Flood came from the South-weftward to that Place 
and the Rivtv Wager •, and that the Tide and Streight 
which he has laid down in his Chart, and publiflied in 
his Journal, is falfe, and an Impofition upon the Public, 
and only calculated to ferve his Purpofe of concealing 
the Paflage, by endeavouring to make out that no Tide 
came from the Weftward, but all through 
and BaffiA s Bay ; and that Wager frefh Water Ri- 
ver, and that the Whales feen there came all in through 
that frozen Streight from BafiAs Bay or Cumberland's In- 
let, he having allowed that none came in through 
HudfoAs Streight, or round Carfs Swans Nejt. 
But as a further Confirmation of this South-weftern 
Tide, and that it came from the weftern Ocean, it appears 
that, after- the Captain had neglebted looking into the 
Bays and Inlets in the WTft fide of the Welcome, from 
Cape Dobbs to Marble Ifland (although it had been order- 
ed in Council) in theieWfords, “ It was agreed upon 
“ to makethebeftof ourWay out of this cold, dangerous 
“ and narrow Streight, and to make further Obfervations 
“ between the Latitude of 64 and 62 Degrees on the 
“ North-fideof the Welcojne, having feeh large Openings, 
“ broken Land, and Iflands, with ftrong Tides ; but 
“ had not an Opportunity of trying from whence the 
“ Flood came, in our Paflage hither. Given under our 
Hands this ythof Auguji, 1742. 
“ Chr. Middleton* 
“ J. Rankin. 
“ Rob. Wilfon. 
“ Geo. Axx. 
“ J. Hodgton, 
W. Moor, Mafter of the D^coveryS^ 
When he came to Marble Ifland, which he called 
Brook Cobham, having called another Ifland fo upon his 
going northward, the fame Fox had called fo before, 
on the 1 2th, at three in the Morning, he fent the Lieu- 
tenant afhore to try the Tide, and to look out for a 
Place of Safety, to water the Ships before they returned 
to England. The Ifland was feven Leagues long and three 
over in the broadeft Place. It lay Eaft by South, and 
Weft by North, the true bearing Variation allowed, and 
about three Leagues from what they called the Weftern 
Main. The Lieutenant on the South- fide found an 
excellent Cove fafe from all Winds, with a fmall Ifland 
lying crofs the Entrance : He founded without and with- 
in the Cove, and found two and a half Fathom in the 
Entrance at low Water, and deep and fafe lying within 
it; whilft he was founding, taking a Draught of the 
Cove, and upon the Ifland taking a View of an Open- 
ing, he obferved On the W^eft Main the Indians killed a 
Deer and a white Bear ; and about eight at Night, as 
they were taking off the Bear-Skin, a ftrong Tide of 
Flood came from the North-weft by the Compafs, and 
had almoft carried the Bear away ; which proves that the 
Tide of Flood came from the Weftward. This I fl^all 
give 
