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I586. The twentieth of July, he had SightStress the ^ ie Streight, which he had discoyer-*' ed two Years before, and failed up itsixty Leagues. Some Authors fay, asfar as eighty-three Degrees of Norths/t comes Latitude, and observed it to be fortyagain. Leagues wide ; But that it should beseventy, instead of eighty, we lee by aLetter from Mr. Davis to Mr. Saunder-fon, of which more below. Havinglanded, without finding any Thing, butwhat he had seen the Year before, andnot being able to proceed farther, be-cause of the Ice, he came out again tothe wide Sea. He then coasted alongto the Southward, as tar as two and fiftyDegrees of Latitude, from whence hereturned Homewards, and arrived atDartmouth, the fifteenth of September,without doing any Thing of Note : Satis-fied, however, with the Discoveries hehad made, tho’ he had not been so hap-py to find what he had been in Searchof.

I have been more brief in my Ac-count of this third Voyage, than I was

in that of the second, as J find little or 1586,nothing said ot it, but what the Readerhas seen in the two former. The Lettermentioned above, written by Mr. Da-vis to Mr. Sanderson, the Day after hisReturn, was as follows.

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farther than I designed at my Depar-ture. I have been in seventy-threeDegrees, and found she Sea all open,with forty Leagues between Landand Land. The Passage is most pro-bable, the Execution easy, as at ourMeeting you shall more fully know ;

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What Success the two Barks had,which were designed for Fishing, I no-where find. /Their Station was to bebetween four and five and fifty Degrees,and they were ordered to set up Marksor Beacons on every Head-land, wherethey came ; But Davis saw no Sign ofthem at his Return, tho' he look’d outfor them several Days.

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E F O R E I come to Sir FrancisDrake's last Expedition proceed-ing the Year 1588. so famous inHistory, which Expedition willbe the Subject: of the ensuing Chapter;It will be proper, in this Place, to giyethe Reader an Account what was donefarther, about this Time, concerningthe intended Establishment of a Colonyand Trade to Virginia.

I gave an Account, in the XVIIthChapter,how the first Intention of a Set-tlement fell,after the Discovery of manyThings of the natural Growth of theCountry, useful fox the Life of Man,and beneficial to Trade ; And after thePersons left there had attained to somelittle Knowledge' iff the Language ofth e Indians, their' Religion, Mannersand Ways of Correspondence one with'another, and were made sensible, tho’at their Cost, of their Cunning andTreachery towards themselves.

The Reader has' likewise seen, in

the same Chapter, that the Governorof the Colony left there, with all hisCompany, were, at their own Desire,brought back to England, by Sir Fran-cis Drake.

While these Things were this Adven,

ing in America, the Adventures, '^ZZtTre-England, were providing, tho’ top te- emit the Ct*diousty, to fend them Recruits. And lon btho’ it was late before they could dis-patch them, (for they met with severalDisappointments, and had many Squab-bles among themselves.) however, atlast,j they provided four good Ships,with all Manner of Recruits,' suitablefor the Colony, and Mr. IValter Releighdesigned to go in Person with them.

The third Voyage,

Rai.eigh got his Ship, which wagof the Burden'of one Hundred Tuns, Raleigh A,ready first, and: fearing the ill Confe-A"'/ M^quence of a Delay, and the Diicou- °' U 'ragement it might be to those who

were