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Middle tori s ANSWER To the Remarks on his Vindication of his Conduft, In a late Voyage made by him in the Furnace Sloop by Orders of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, to find out a Paflagc from the North* weft of Hudfon\ Bay, to the Wcftcrn and Southern Ocean of America. Shewing the Art and Evafions he makes ufe of to conceal his Mif-conduft and Negledl in profe- cutmg that Difcovery : As alfo the falfc Cur- rents, Tides, Straits, and Rivers he has laid down m his Chart and Journal to concesi the Difcovery • with Remarks upon fome extraordinary Affida-' vus he has published in his Favour. To which is added, A Full Anfwer to a late Pamphlet publifhed by Capt MtddUton, called FORGERY DETECTED ' By Ari^hur Dobbs, Efq-, LONDON Printed :*And fold by J. Robinson, at the Golden Lion, m Ludiau'jinct, MDCCXLV. ^ LP I---!. I 1 .J <3 ■■■I wm^mmmmmmm'mmm T O T H E RIGHT HONOURABLE Tun Lords Commissioners O F T H E Admiralty of Great Britain. My Lords, TH E Favour you did me in communicating the Defence Captain Middkton publilhed againft the Qiieries and Objedions I laid before Your Lordfliips to his Con- dua in the Voyage to Hudfon's Bay, m Search of a PalTage from thence in- to the Weftern Ocean of America, and the Honour done me by Your fb rea- dily examining into his Conduft, and hearing the Proofs I brought to fup- port my Charge againft him, lay me under particular Obligations to Your LordOiips. Thefe, together with the 181748 ^""'^ DEDICATION. Duty I owe the Public as a Member of Society, indifpenfibly obliges me to fcrutinize ftriaiy into his Condua, and examine into the Nature and Weight of his Defence. I beg leave therefore to lay before Your Lordihips thefe REM ARK b upon his written Defence (which Your Lordihips favoured me with the 1 e- rufal of) by which, I am perfuaded, you will find that his Defence is only made up of Falfities and Evafions, art- fully blended together to difgmfe the Truth ; and that all I have given m Charge againft him is fully proved, from his Original Log-book m the Furnace, from his Journal, the Evi- dence of his Officers and People, and from his own original Letters; where- by it will evidently appear, that he has wilfully misbehaved, by negleding to look into thofe Places where he had Reafon to exped a Paffage, by falhty- mg wmm ^mmmm BED ICAT 10 N.' ing Fads, by making Currents and Tides contrary to Truth, and by forg. ing a large Frozen Streight to bring in a Tide and Whales, in order to fup* porf: the Scheme he had laid to con- ceal the Paflage : And that, to induce Your Lordfliips to believe that he has followed his Inftruaions, he has made frefli Water Rivers and a continuous Coaft or Continent, where there are noble Straits and Inlets, with fait Wa- ter PaiTages, and nothing but broken Land and Iflands. I fubmit the Whole to Your Lord- fhips Confideration, and am, with the higheft Relpea, My LORDS, 3^//^ Lordjhips • Mojl Obedient^ and Mojl humble Servant^ Arthur Dorrq • JLS\J% ] cec Cr fev St} in his fi re. iitai fi eat THE PREFACE. ,APTAIN Middleton having been appointed, at my Injlance and Re- commendation. Commander of the d^coverthe North-^eji Paffage to the wljlern Ocean of Amcnc, and having difguifed and con- cealedfrom me, upon his Return, many material Cncumjlances of the Difco^^ery, an/mentioned feveral Tkngs as FaBs concerning Currents, Stre,ghts, Rivers, &c. ^hich appeared to me .n a quite different Light ■when I had perufed frejh Water Rivers, and broken Coajls to the main Land, in his Letters, and that he had Jearched narrowly the whole Coafl, ■which after. t3n/ty/jc PREFACE. wards, by his Journal, I found Be had mi fearcbed at all, but faffed great Fart of it tn the Night, and was at a great Dijiance from it in the Day-time , onJyJianding in with fome of the Head-lands y which were known to be- Iflands by others who were there before him : And afterwards finding by fome Gentlemen who had been the Voyage with him, that he had dif- guifed his Charts and Currents, in order to fiifle the Difcovery, I thought it my Duty tofcru- tinize into his Behaviour, and therefore gave in a Set of ^eries againft his ConduSt to the Lords of the Admiralty, to be anfwered by fede- ral of his Officers ; and thofe ^eries, with the Anfwers to them, were given to him by their Lordfiips, in order to his anfwering them, and making his Defence. Captain Middletoa accordingly has made the beft Defence in his Power to the Charge laid a- gainfi him, and has appealed to the Publick, by printing his Defence ; wherein he has advanced many Falftties, falfe Reafonings, Evafwns, and intimidating Accounts, to prevent any farther Attempt. He has likcwife publif^ed feveral Let^ ters which I wrote to him, in order to fupport his Allegations, as far as he could, from them, and alfofome of his to me, tho" very incorreBly, having altered part, and omitted a whole Para- graph PREFACE. grapb in his lajl Letter to me; he has alib charged me with endeavouring to intice him to qmt the Hudfon'. Bay Service, and making hm great Vrofeffiom andPromifes of procuring htm royal Grants offuch Lands as hejhoulddil cover, whilji, at the fame time, he fays, L difcouraged me all along from undertaking the ^Sril ^f//"" V "°' P^^"^" "P°° ^^ to defaft. rks falfe and unfair Treatment obliges me to puMtJh all our Cor refpondence from his ongtnal Utters to me, and the rough Draughts of all my Letters to him -which I bad by me. 'Ths the mpartral Reader, 1 hope, -will not only ^"Defence, ,n order to Jhe^ the Falfenefs of h Infnuattons, that I had, by artful Proiifls, that I have f nee treated him incandidly, in en- deavour, ng to fcrutinize into bis Condlh. lam confident zt -won't be deemed a Breach of pZ He that ipublijh his Correfpondence Lb me, he bavtng defired me not to publijh his corre- t \X\. ""' ""'' '^'^'" formations be gave, wklfihe continued in the Company' s Ser- vue to hs Prejudice, -^Mch 1 promifid him 1 would n.t, and punSually perjormed it, until now, that he has partially publified part, and hna me under a Neceffity, in my own Defenc. Trorn msUmrge a^^^"^'^ — --''"•- • "^ - "-"' J nji me, topublifi the whole, by . PREFACE. hy which it will appear that 1 did not prefs him to quit the Companfs Service, but that he in- treated me to get him employed, and that he al- ways gave me the great eft Encouragement to at- tempt the Difcovery : This I thought proper to premife, that the Reader may fee, thatmypub- lijhing his Correfpondence has been forced upon me by Captain Middleton, and was not origi- nally intended by me. REMARKS ' ,ffin ! m ' ■ V - / ' refs him • he in" \t he al" it to at" A k roper to my pub" ced upon It origi- R E p T O L Y Capt. MiDDLETOm ANSWER To the REMARKS on his VINDICATION. |HE Anfwer to my Remarks on Capt. Middleton*s Vindication of hisCondu<51:» upon his late Voyage to find out the Northweft Paflage, being fwell'd to a great Bulk, and fiird witJi many things not material :o the Difpute, fo far as the PubJick ;V conccrn'd in it; tho' I think myfelf oblig'd to an- fwer it, in order to Ihtw the Evafions, Falfities and' falfe Reafoning, contained in his Anfwer : yet, as it feems entirely cakulated to carry' on a Paper- War, no way beneficial to the PubJick, but on the con- trary prejudicial, fo far as it is calculated, on one Side, to prevent other Ships being fent to perfed the Difcovery, which muft in confequence either eftablifh or ruin Capt. MiddletotCs Charader, accor- ding as Fadls ihall appear for or againft him, which at prefent, by his ConcKid, he is endeavouring to prtjvent being brought to^Lightj — r-Ifhall, to a- a void ARKS (2) void Prolixity, pafs over, as (lightly as I can, fuch J'hings as he has laid to my Charge,to vilify my Cha- rader, and (hall lay my principal Force upon fuch Things as relate to the Proof of a Paflage, and to his Negled and MifconducSl during the Voyage, and (hew the Art and Evafions he makes ufe of to juftify himfclf and conceal the Difcovery, which I Ihall not glols over with falfe Rhetorick, but lay b.fore the Reader, in a plain and open Drefs, with- out any Difguife ; and fliall therefore, without fur- ther Delay, come to the Point in dilpute, obferving upon every material Paragraph in his Anfwer. Capt. MiddletoHy in his Preface, is lb good as to '* approve of my Intentions, and the great Advan- tage it would have been to the Publick to havie found a Paflage to the South-Sea through Hudfon^% Strait ; and owns, that he was recommended for, or induced to accept the Command of thefe Ships : And in hopes of being ferviceable to his Country, and at the fame time to his Family, Xth a good Employ in which he had been long fettled, which^ his Employers were unwilling he fliould give up, to* proceed upon the Difcovery, and acknowledges he departed with fanguine Hopes ; and tho* he did all that Man could do, to the beft of his Knowledge, yet Experience proved thefe Hopes were vain, as his tollowing Sheets would evince." How far this is Truth, rnay be feen in the follow- ing Anfwer to his Reply. He before faid, he never encouraged me, but always difcouraged me ; and yet he allows here he went away with fanguine Hopes. He thin takes it amifs, that, when the Lords of the Admiralty were fatisfied with his Con- dtid, that I was not alfo fatisfied with it, fince I could not fear any Ccnfure from the Admiralty: But the Reafon of this was, that the Admiralty had only the Publick in view, and I had my private Intereft only in V ( 3 ) in view; and therefore I ftU foul upon him for having deprived me of a clandeftine Trade, by which I jfhould have known the Profits of the Com- pany, becaufe he could not reahze my ima<^inary Paflage, faying, he had neglefted it wilfully" and received a Bribe from the Company to conceal what he was employed to difcover. To this End, he fays, my Agents were to procure WirnefTcs, and then procured them to write me an anonymous Letter; and thus, as he fays afterwards, I entered into aCombination againft him. This is a pompous Way of turning the Tables againft me, as he thinks ; but to what Purpofe it could ferve, I leave the Pubiick to judge. Would my raifing falfe WitnefTes againft him realize the 1 aflage ? To what End could I bribe them, or make them great Promifes of Rewards and Prefer- ment m cafe they gave falfe Evidence ? If there was no PaflCige, did not all their Rewards, and Pre- ferment upon it, depend upon their making out that there was a Paflage, and they would rifque their Lives again in making the Difcovery ? Could I exped: either Profit or Honour in engaging the Pubhck to undertake it again, if there was no Paf. fage, and that I knew there was none, but had knowingly raifed up falfe Witnefles to make the Pubhck believe it ? If this was my Scheme, he would prove me madder than heeven alledges againft me in his Reply to my Remarks : but as all I want IS only by a new Attempt to have the Truth ap- pear, the Ififue, which he dreads, will foon con- vince the World whether he went into the Scheme I charge him with, in order to conceal fo beneficial a Dilcovery ; or whetf >r J, and the Gentlemen who have given Evidence againft him, have en- deavoured to impofe upon the Pubiick, by makinc — . »..«v viiwiu IS a X aiitf^c vviicrc tnefc IS none, and B 2 who i ■ (4) who arc willing to rrfquc their Lives and Honour in, making out the Difcovery. The Frauds, Fal- Yitics and Ncglc(5ls, with which he is charged, will dill be more fully proved againll him in the follow- ing Sheets, to which I refer. He begs the Publick may excufe him, if he has inadvertently dropt any warm Expreffions, when they are convinced of the Injuftice done him, by my virulent Attack againft him j (which, when they are, I hope they will) and that I myfelf may pafs it over for the following Reafons j that I have given him Caufe to believe that I knew the Accufations brought againft him were entirely ground lefs, and that the Evicjence given in to iupport them was concerted in willul Prejudice to the Truth : Apd that I had, throughout my Remarks, treated him withLanguage much more excufable ztBillinfgateythzn in a Gentleman accuftomed to polite Converfation. I do own I was warm in fome of my Expreffions, in my Remarks upon his Defence, in charging him with trifling, evafive, and incoherent Anfwers, and with Shams and Tricks, to impofe Falfities upon the Publick : But does it not appear plain to the Reader that his Anfwers were evafive, and his Streights,Tides and Currents, abfolutely falfe? And, I think, I once charg'd him with Roguery, in playing a double Game. But I think this Warmth in fome meafure excufable, when Falfities, as well as evafive An- fwers, were made ufe of to conceal the Truth 5 and think he gave me perfonal Provocation, in faying, 1 had IhamefuUy departed from my Integrity, and that Ranken and JVilfon declared an Abhorrence of my pradizing with them ; and my attacking jiim, was only on account of a low, poor Spite, becaufe he deprived me of a lucrative Trade ; fo that a per- fonal ill Treatment, might add to my Warmth in Defence of Truth, fo openly attack'd. But, I think. -L ' -i.-Li? '' HJ.i ' U ( 7 ) him he refers to my Letter, OSldcr ^, ,.,. which IS at large in his Appendix ^' ^^^» Now this Letter is io far from iVs- ..• . r . Ijcitcd him to quit the ComZ-f I!'"? '''•" ' '^'- deruke the Diicoverv thJi,^ ierv ce, and Un- me to fit out a SL^b 'from ,^"^""1' ^^ P''°">''"='' had got any further IJahr t? '">" t° kno» if he nor had I a'ny Corref^den 'J witrC" ^"'^' I .£ghVrCpf;/H?d'" '? n^' '^' '^'- covert, Tn,ijPy "^^ vnciertaken the n;f SrStrsi^a'i^-r thing fron. him Lt wh" h ellS'dif "'"^^^ ^"^ Bay relating to the Prob L i /'.^ ,h P^^^ '" '^' ■ not this evident from mv l'L? h! i ^^f.' '* and his Anfwcr and m^A , ^ ^'^' publifh'd, niwcr, and my Application upon it to Sir ' Bihy f (8) Bihy Lake * Where then had I any Room for my making him fiich vaft Promifes to undertake it ? or how could he fn-ctend to have fuch a Dilcourfc with Sir Biby Lake abtMt it ? Upon my getting his Letter, Nov. lysj, where- in he informed me the Company had trifled with me, I wrote him an Anfwer, See my former ^. N^. IV. and that was the firft Time I ever propo- fed his Going, which was in very modeft Terms. ' Sec the Letter, viz. If I knew your Inclinations, as to your own attemp^ ting it, or any of your Friends^ I would promote it with Sir R. W. in cafe the Company dorCt effe£fually fet about it ; for whoever will effeSi it^ will certainly deferve a Reward from the Publick. Does not this plainly prove, that this was the firft Propofal I made him ? Por if he had dcclin'd it before, and had not been plcas'd with fuch great Promifes as he fays I made him, would I have faid that I wanted to know his Inclinations ? So that this Propofal proves that it could not be before^ as he would have it believ'd. ' Then followed my Correfpondence with Sir Bihy Lake upon it j whereon I broke with the Company, Dec. 1737; ^"^ ^" 7^^' ^737'^^^ had Capt. Middle- tot^s Anfwer, who then propofed to me, that the Government fhould undertake it, by giving En- couragement to fome Perfon of Ability, and fays, he would be ambitious of undertaking, it, and hop'd with Saccefs, defiring me to conceal his Inclinations from the Company. See his Letter, N'.VIII. in my former Appendix, I then wrote to Sir Cha. Wager, and finding Capt. Middleton defirous of undertaking the Difcovcry, fcnt him a Copy of Sir Charks\ Anfwer; and told 2 him, fflumiiLimmqiiiayiiuM him, Since he was ambitious of undertaking rf,,. nir covery, I would make ufe of *hTlnarSil ?{' - recommend him as a proper lS„";olerS .To this he returns me an A nfwer v^/)W/« ,. o Does this Anfwer fhew that i\U)'ia u- enticed him with fpeciouTp omi L^''" wl''™' °' .°" r ic ^In^rnl;"'^ '-4 ambitior :: iUr! him a kini'" Sh „ f '"^, '"'" ^^ '"^''^ «<" getting cient Premium ZuHh"!' ^'°^^'^' '"'" ^ f^^^' See his uJler By hXtS^tS T ";,^''^ ^'^-very . going out, andu^ponhb Retl fn n%i^' ^73». no farther Propo^, ,,, S^S'Lt'^^!; of Af l"!;Ki^fe;S't;t' r^'^ ;:;c o thTrtth^r^vrcX^ dertake it, as tmv be frl^^^Pf ^ '^°"W ""- oveTi^nim^^Scfo/^^^^S.^^^^^^^^^ Year, if I f^ y ^ d M, ''"^^ '° ""^""P' '' "-=« See his Letter i"i^?"v' '°IT '" ^^'=™"°"- vances on my Si^' ^ ^^- ^ '« "° gteat Ad, •»«» to recommend h,,; for T kL^II-'"^ ^"- m-fing that his future Bel^^iouI'wf.fA' ??- i#»i»» k.'. noe I » il! i 1 ( 10 ) not unworthy (o high aTmft, nor ungrateful to his • ..^^j'^y '■^^^^''y concurrM in, and recommended him lor It. SeehisJ.ctter, former Jp. N^ XVI. Now, had I promifed getting him before this the Command of a King's Ship, was there any Cdufc for this earned fohciting Letter ? or. Can I be-faid to have inticed him, or fohcited him to quit the Company's Service, when he Co earneftly Jntre ated me to recommend him ? Did he not by this Ihew that he wanted to get out of the Com- pany's Service? Is there any thing therefore fo grofs as to have the World believe, that I feduced him into the Service, and made him lofe his Bread ; or, Was I obliged to conceal his Letters to my own Prejudice, whtn the Concealment was only necelFary whilft he was m the Company's Service ? or, Has his Behaviour upon the Difcovcry, where his Ne- gledt, falie Currents, Streights and Rivers, fully appear againft him, Ihewn him worthy of that high Truft, and grateful to his Benefaftor, that I fhould fkreen his Condud? Don't I owe it to my own Charafter, as well as to the Publick ? And I hope, if I make it appear that there is a Paflage, and that he muft be confcious that there is one, that then the Publick will juftify me in publilhing his Letters as Evidence againlt him j and that the p'jblifhing them now, in Defence of my Charafter from his Charge againft me, (after he had publifh'd fuch of mine as he thought made for his Purpofe, ?"-r l»e had vo- luntarily quit the Co^npany's Service, an<' ^ 'lereforc IS not m their Power) can be cli d j, i>.each of Confidence in me, at a Time when he would have the Pubhck believe he was at fo much Variance with them, as to wifh I could break their Charter. In Pages g, and 4, he taxes me with affirming ITnauih, in faying. That Mr. Men was with me ,'t: wmk zj^. t7t : 11 r .'t .^v''= ^"'-^ ^^■^■'- wirh m^ I.... ci , ^ciiilenicn were wir/i wir/i me, hut affirms he never liw Mr 4/l,«,in "US fetting out in tl.c Fur«nc^ * "" "^ «rolW, micht not T'ru'^'^^T ''""'"« Time to Meeting, vftLTi,!,' '''" '""""' '^"'^'"f^r 'he min-linf him of th^ ?■ 'a"^" " "P°" ""y ^e- Mcetinl Th Li ^''•'^"'"?^"«s attending our Means'^' "'' ^'"^ ^'°"&^' '°g"her by hi, 'o !he''c?mpany '"fo^Z'^P V"" ^""'fi'"^ '"'"'•^'f to let meZo? Mel"^ T*' "' ?"""""«» Bay, he conW ^- ' "P"" Enqwry in the «he^; il.tC:o?lT' "^" Lrght^hether of the Company P ""''" ""= ^°^^=^ °^ ^"A^ence RefledH^ns tatrwhtir' ="«' ''^''Ke his Rhetotl"flow!^rg,f 'i '"Sf'^ftant difplayshis ter'rl hJj m.^"' 'ncolleding all the fear terd Heads rf A^ufation. I fup^^fe he .X' ^ from ( '2 ) from Rabelais J as well in his collcfting of Epithets, as in his foul Language : But as I don't think Rhc- torick at all neceflary in finding out Truth, the Thing in difpute here, which is beft found out in a plain Drefs, and that I apprehend it is chiefly made uie of in difguifing Truth and ellablifliing Error in its Room, I congratulate him upon his flowing Stile, but fhall ror think the Caufe I am imbark*d in will appear the worfe for iti native Drefs, without Ornaments j and therefore (hall take no notice of if, but fo far as he fays I have laid great Strefs upon three Perfons, to whom I acknowledge to have maxle tempting Offers to injure him, and upon Letters, This he muft give me leave to fay is falfe : For, firft:, I never made any Offers to them, nor even promifed to recommend them, until they had given in and made out their Charge againft him before the Admiralty; nor did I pretend to recommend them for injuring him, but for difcovering the Truth. 1 don't think it injuring him to evidence the Truth ; but ic would have been great Injury to thePublick, to have conceal'd the Truth in order to have fcreen'd him : So that if he (hould fufFerin his Chara«5Ver upon their evidencing the Truth, he can't complain that Injuftice is done him ; nor am I blameable for recommending Perfons who have done Juftice to the Publick to be employ'd, fo as to fecur? them to undertake the Difcovery, who are willing to rilque their Lives, and forfeit their Ho- nour and Charafter, if they don't make it appear upon the next Trial that what they have aflirmcd is Truth. » Pages 8, 9, lo, are taken up in endeavouring to prove, by falle Rhetorick, contrary to Fa6ts upon authentick Letters, that I folicited him, and enticed him to go the Voyage.—This I have fully anfwer'd already. Pages ( '3 ) ' Pag« lo, ar>d i r, about the Ooenino* mt wl r - thought of tilJ afrer fK.;. D ' ""^^ ^^ ^^5 never Sr„r^ wii. prove ,h« iSe&';?^- on Shore at Cape AtSiThtTnl'^ ,tV" to to make Rafts. H the EJki ( 14 ) ow could this be Truth, when kmaux, their mortal Enemies, live upon that Coaft, even to the Southward of Whallcove to J*Jkimaiix% Point, in about 6 1^'. Does he not in that Jitter affirm; chat the Lieutenant and Mafter mecwithasmrichlce, or more, when they went up to the Wefi-Bluff in IVager River, than he faw where the Ships lay ? Was not this falfe and eva- iive? And from his Theory of Coid, he could prove It was fo cold that it could not be free from Jet one Week, or two at moft, and fome Years not 3t aii. I fliall pafs over Things not material, as his Alle- gation that Mr. Smith was my Agent, as alfo his perfonal Attacks, as lightly as I can, fince our Cha- ratters will be made manifeft hereafter. A>i^^* ^^' ^"'^ '5' ^^ '^ endeavouring to juftify the Malter, upon his giving a different Teftimony be- fore the Lords of the Admiralty in his Parole Evi- dence, from what he, gave in Writing, (or more properly, was didated for him by the Captain) tax- ing me with Want of Integrity and Memory, and that my Reafon is impaired when this Affair of the Difcovery is in queftion, advifingthe Mafler tokeep to his Journal and Report, otherwife he would ap- • peal to them i and he gave the fame Caution to the Lieutenant. He furely forgets that he prevailed with both Lieutenant and Mafter to copy from his Log and Journal ; alledging, that fince it was one jmd the fame Voyage, the Journals would be the fame, and It would iave them a great deal of Trouble; nay, went fo far as to endeavour to prevail with Captain Moor Mafter of the Btfcovery, to take his Jour- nal alfo from him ; lo that except the Log he calls the Waftc-book, where every one upon the Watch fet down what occurred, all avow'd publick Jour- ^ nals ■ ( '5 ) in their Obfc^atbns. m!gt 'n^ 'dife th'' own: So thac all th^ n\-!f • ^"^^"^ "'» hereafter bHngs im h^r WnT °' ''"^'^ ''' Proof than from his o«n ^ ""^ "^ "° S'''-''"^' tha^&i; ;tr:.ty: -rhS'^!"' ^-. ffify that he feid they were lal ke ^^'Xl^" ''' to me that they were al braS j^'v^f r"'** they could not L drank H '^'n/ h„ M ' '>' th nK"V:s r t: reXits ^^' ^ and, as a Proof of that tnlH mf k . Py ' was in m,..RwJ, 't ht^LTe^ett Jnd C^ fler went up the laft Time to the wJaZS^^' the upper End of ^<»r.r-River that H ^ ^■^' ?' cut out two or three Leav« of his I. ^'^'"1 -nrerted othe«, under p'?tence th« he ' ""'* ed to put them into better En^iO, A , ''^"- thatat that critical Ce, aft ^X' Tk"^" Alteration ihm>ld have bew made ' ^'"^ =« , . '^g- '7. he refers to Mr. I^'drki''. T er,. • h.s Favour deCring his Readers tSe fcT '" felves. The ftcond, he fays is thXV ■ i*^'"- and an Evidence of l^is Vigl '„<^ And hTr' ""% Whoe ver ( i6 ) Whoever reads this Letter may obferve, that vhat Mr. Lendrick there mentions, is at Repuife Bay, and Cape Frigid, after he had Jcft TFager- Kiver ; and fince he was not afhore to know the Tides, Current, or StreJght, all he faid was from the Veracity of the Captain, as to the frozen Streicrht and Tide. No Perfon pretends that there wal a Paflage there, or could be of ufe to go to the Weftern Ocean : If there had been one, it would have brought them home through Hudjon's Streight As to the Manning of the Ships, he wrote from the Orkntes, where probably, by a longer Voyage, they might be worfe than in Hudfonh Bay. But fince Capt. MiddUton confeffes Mr. Lendrickh Veracity, and none will doubt the Account he gives being true, I Ihall here infert a Letter he wrote me from on board the Monmouth, then in Portfmtmth, the loth of June, 1744, which is the only Letter I had from him fince the Journal he fent me hom London, after his Return, nor have I ever wrote to or con- ▼erfcd with him fince. TO I '7 J To Arthur Dobb; -'> % SIR, ^^*" JPrefumeon your good Nature, i„ fardonin^ f,y Freedom -wbicb J think mfe/ZteZ take, ,„ Regard to my Reputation i pZrinl fon'.sOftbehigbe^CoLrn. lbavTiJ„M ifpt. Middleton in one of his Libeh C; '•^JPeahng Ibmgs jufi as he •wou'Ibave ^fin Ibereby declare to be abfolutely falli ZZ. A manifefi Piece of For/erv-^T' V- T^ rm Ji^!„,^i ■ -4 "fSf'^y- -^^me Time after ■it s true It was verv lame /mf /f^:<^i ■ „'"")• ding to the hell J 4 "f Jf^ '^^k jull , accor- (For ll% ^ -^f ^ J^-M"''"' "t that T,me (for Imujlown, Iwas then but a munny future Behai::ZVl}:r^i7i .f;' '^^- SIR, lam mtb all jujl Refpea, Tour mofl obliged, mojl bumble, ^d moft obedient Servant, John Lendrick. P.S. A Copy of a- Letter fent to Capt. Mtmm from SheZ/s. SIR, Sept. 22, ,743. Treatment for LrSeZi^. "'eetmth f„,,^ ^eare well affhr^A. ■^^^""'^""'^y: "s impute it to nothim hut X ,!^\ ^^^ '^'^ can o/theje tJoMfn Vyt^^'Z^T^'^'^r J'hofe Behaviour -when IFboarA^k I^°'^P^""' hut too plainly foretelfZ ft*''' ^"■""^'^^ '^^ r ^nty joretel their Jub/equent ConduSl SIR, Tours, &c. % [ " ] By this Letter it plainly appeara, that a Gentle- T^^^C^'"^' »!>" he allows is a Gentleman of Veracity, Candour and good Senfe, is of the fame Opinion .v,th me that his Affidavit-Men fwore w Ihing^ above and beyond their Knowledge i and from thence ji,aiyobrerv«, that they were ciik'd up to anlwer his Purpofe, by whom the Reader may ^^T ' J° ?^^'^ '*"='" '° fw^ar their Affidavit with more Freedom, he told them, that they only fwore to the beft of their Knowledge, as Mr gI own'd to Cant i/..r was (he Rein for making IHS glaring Affidavit, which, upon its being read Z%^a"" ^/,'^aptwU..r, he in feveral Parts con- tradidted, and faid, it was not in the Terms he ex- Wjj; " '° „ • '"^^" '"■ "^^ ""ead to him by Capt Md^letm But thi. Affidavit I ihall take particular Notice of. m another Place. F '■■"-""r The Copy of the Letter he and Gill fent me is Vl°ri'"\i ''^,?P'• ^'d'il'">«-- fcr, inftead of tbeji !.•. M;«, Wygate ««iThompfon, the Captain has added, thefe two (-jiorfi of). Men. But 'tis plain this Letter was no more than defign'd as a evil Anfwer to the Captain for his Prefenr. without entering into the Merits of the Caufe ; and what IS mentioned of Wygate and Thompfin, is an Anfwer to that Riragraph of the Captain's Letter ^ey mention, where he fays, they gave him bad Treatment. So that Mr. LendrkV% Letter and O- pinion IS far from being in his Favour, as he would liave the Publick beiieve. .u ^^^^ 3^' i'^ '^5'^' "^""'^ L^'er wote to one of the Lords of the Admiralty was of doubtful Credit, and feems as if he were enfnared by the Clerk, but Z^vi^"' not make againft him. as it opens ano- ther Paflage for his Tides and Whales to come thro', . which pit' "»"•..' £-S^iT£'T " Tideand Whales ? h .tf'°t '"*'"= '°"- his it docs not appear h", ^l -^ ""°^^- ^""^ Brf nr^hich S hfe ]S:^. I'l^'"?""- t4 faal. N. E. is no Part of r^*" ^' '^PPo^' '» ™n up raw ; what he f l 4 onlvT^ ^'^- '!''^ ^^''^ ^^ the Ifland, and Tamf o^r L ' "'"';'' '^^^"nded Point : The U^d f^;^' f.* "',« '^e Z^^,,,^ ftw, he defcribes a, S "^"^ ""^ ">= ^ea he tliat he could no^ fee anv^A mountainous Land ; fo. And the ArmThich h/,n T^i''' ^"^ °''" "- by hjs DrauTht near Tr ^PP"'"'''"^] '»" N. E. is not lie can malcf ourthif a3„7;''V ^""'athow fure ^^Dj.^:^r:!tJ:^U^^''' 5 P-Pniet he cans take notice of this here h?,//i, '^^'^°^^^''- B«tl/hallnrt Reply, and fhevv it's Affid-."^ l"'^^'" " ^* '^^ ^ndtf thl I^mphlet built upon that bX I hi ^ has advanced in hi« ev6ry jKeader. *^ ^^""^ ^ ^°P^' to the Satisfaftion ©f r 22 ] fure to have forced away all the Ice within it? Yet ru'Vu r K^ ^^°"^ Side to Side; thircfor^^I think he has no fuch Caufe o/ Exultation ^'"""'^ * h/u%'r^' ^^ ^"'"^i" ^^^^ ^^Pf- ^^/'^'•^^^-^ told him he had fcen a great Number both of young and old Whales as far up as Cape Z)/Wj in 1727 If hi really faid fo, which I much^doubt le ' he is a ///.^>'s Bay Captain, and therefore his Teftimony here to ferve their Caufe makes him of dou^??u^ Credit w.th me. But fhould it be true, it is feven- ^en Years fincc he faw any; and by his Silence it the Ea(t Entrance i and if any other Captain or Sailor had feen any, he would certainly have brought fome of them to confirm it : So that one Evidence of doubtful Credit feeing them once in 17 S and none feen either by him or others in 4 Years pairing and repaffing the Streights, and probably they may have been white Whales, for he docs not explain himfelf upon that Point, I think makes the Proof ftronger that the Whales in the fTelcome don t come through Hud[on\ Streights He afks if th; Whales are under a Neceffity to blow. I fay they muft do it very often, otherwife they would not be feen blowing fo often in the Seas they frequent. Pag 20. he fays, his Letter wrote in 1727.R was only Hearfay. Is it Hearfay where he fays. He does not remember to have feen Whales in any other Part of ^«^>«'s Bay? or. Was the Tides rifing at Neap Tides with a N. and N, W. Wind ztChurchiL higher than with Southerly or Eafterly Winds, at Sprmg-Tides at Churchil and ^/^^«y, Hearfay ; when he himfelf had wintered at Churchil, and had been r^^^^^^"^^^^^^^''-^-^ ^^ ^^ ^'•"^» Scroggs-Tidt at malebone Point rifing 5 Fathom was Hearfay, but taken from a Journal wrote upon the Spot, and from the t ■.. the ^.W at ail r o! '4' ^t' H ^ '"''« « Tide taken at Z)«r Sound ^u . ^"Shc of the P^oof that it did „M "Si '''° ''"y i"correftiy a "!»'•' Several aboa«l"he/J! ''°'2. "' ">« ^'Z- Tide was not taken accurateivTn *'"™' ">at the fc "P a Pole ,5 F^TLt^;'^'^-Soor>d. They High-water it was coverT hl^'^-";««^ "nd at again: So that tliere ? n« n '''."'"''^'"•ePoIe ""ght of the Tide A„H° J^'"'^"^" "Pon the I'eve, that all Tides and cl ^^^' '^^'""°" to be! ^•r" by the Cap" fn"'*^"^""'"^ they were w- fe ^- ^'^ ^"^-ndt^n;r.,: ''rdg'\:S,;';«H^ght of that Tide .^^^ difingenuous asTo'take n^o^'?"'"'^ '^'"'^h J was ?o ^m which he pre?un,.d it mfi^^'^"I"«dem Weftern Ocean, andgave " rH^ ' <-°'"e f;r>n, a .»«= fok greL Or^Snd th^H^ "^ P-'""-" that •P the ffeUowe, where , he p '"'d af- stoW^X ;CS Bolt "^r memioninr'f.^fXPV'^ "ults greatly t.pon „,jr The ^.o^ r . ^» ^'^^y ^^'*^^ n^ade of Bone Ho^fe'^S.t; h^Brrd^I'V^'^^'^^^- of Bone, I f^ppofc he woulcf ha/e t t bllie^d' ptliTo^rg^eSo™^V'tllff ^r '- keens n..f fN« qi • u , ' ^^ ^"^ ^'^^s and what Keeps out the Skins be made of Rnnp ^l, ,^ • r and don't venture out of Siahr nf r nr,V j ' fequently could not c^oA t "e Ba/ Iha've ™"h : u "^ c^^^y ""ght havecroffed to the ^ekolf o have filhed for Whale,, and have return^ S thcr Bone to Cap= Diggs to have traded with thdr . ^ Ships, { 26 ) Ships, which they know return that way, and were never feen at the IVekome ; nor do I think it im- poffible they fhould crofs the Bay to the Northward in fmall Boats, when the Bay is pretty well filled with Ice, which is no Impediment to them, but a Safety, as they can take up theirBoat« and carry them along the Ice to open Water. P. 23 and 24, he labours again to prove Wager to be a River and no Strait, from the Tidc*s being Icfs and the Water frefher the higher they went Up ; it is plain he has no Reafoning in this whole Re- mark. For his Account of the Thames Tide no body denies, and muft be the fame in all Rivers, of the Tide's leffening ; but does that prove that the Tide does not alfo leffen in Straits ; have I not criven two Inflanccs, one in Magellan Straits, the other in Hudfon's Strait, the laft leflcning from 4 Fathom, to 6 Feet, at Carfs. Swan's Neft.— As to his Tide's flowing from the Eaftward to above Savage Sound, ih.it makes notforhinijunlefshecouid prove it flow'd fo beyond the Weft BlufF, where the Lieut, affirms a contrary Tide met it ; nor is his Account of the Tides any way fatisfadory, as they were no where accurately taken -, for that at Deer Sound being above 15 Feet, plainly fiiews it was as high there as below, or at his frozen Strait ; and no body pretends the Tide at the Weft BlufF was taken at all, fince they did notftay a Tide; fo that if the Tides did JelFen, as he afPrms they did, it is no reafon to prove it a River; but here is no Proof that the Tide flowed from the Eaftward fo high as Deer Sound, but, if any, it is rather to the contrary ; for he allows that Whales are never in frefh Water, yet there were Whales at, nnd above Deer Sound, but none below it ; and the Dodor and others who were up at Deer Sound, affirm, that theie Whales always came ■II from the Weftward, with the Tide of Flood, of Flood at dT&Za ''T'^"'^'' ''''' tl'* Tide His next PmJ u'*"'=, f^""" theWeftward. to confirm it n^r hi w '^?„«'"'i h's Affidavit have to™ ^^lsntlT'''^'\''^l'^ '^^ *°"'d I (han't here ent r inZTjTvA^ frelh-watcr Lake. and that he got & to'r **" '/^ • ''^ ''^'"' ^ fworetothe beftofi; I '*rj'' ^''""S' ^e cni; the Water hTreXr „nr°'"'°^ 'he Freftnefs of Admiralty, Capt Moor fhlc j.2* °'^ '^e ai they Cr aThio^ ,Tr '^"'"- ^""^ ^^^f^" ''^ ^^r Water ab6ut i)'= was I r or 1 2 LeastuesbrnaH 13 ■ ' r T* ^^™' ' Mr au hi,r,fdf,f;;S^^:tefr-°"^^ » fd pends,who tailed theWat^rn ,"^^"y 'heCapt. de- hisJournai,toldmethTSji%\"''t1?'!"P'^ not be drank Mr ^ V^i" ''"'''''* "^ou'd and near^"«: Sound ^ '" '"^ "5"^"* '"^' 'hat at. ware takenTo frZ ',1 * o ""^ Egg-weed or Sea- known irfrfee? tyT^vtllJ' ""'' that rhp Affi^ ,*vivcr5, nay C/«y himfeif owns fweLiri>f,ri"?P/^P^/fd, and he defir'd "o upon bein.> exLinedlL*" "« ^^"''^'^''gc; and r win^ examined fince, affirms material Parts ^^ of ( 28 ) of it to be, to his Knowledge, diiFerent from what he knew, and did not remember he had fworn to fome things mentioned in the Affidavit. In p. 25. he pretends, that there are larger freih Rivers in Norway and. Sweden, than IVager River, and that, from his own Knowledge, which we muft again take upon the Veracity of his Word^ which is apparently con trad idory to all Charts ^nd Maps of thofe Countries, which have been pretty accurately taken-. I appeal to all who look into thefe Charts, or who have been upon the Coaft betwixt Brontheim and Bergen, or Stockholm, whether there are any fuch Rivers there as run into the Country about 30 Leagues, from 8 to 10 or 12 Leagues wide, and above 70 Fathom deep. After this, he feems much furpriz'd that I fhould pubhfh a Map of Nbrth America, where I had never been, as if no Charts or Maps could be made from the Journals or Obfervations of others, who had been in thofe Countries. This he gives as an Inftance that my Brain is touch'd, and my Reafon affeded, whenever theTopick of the N. W. Paflage comes to be the Matter in Debate, or upon the Tapis. If this Infinuation, fo often touch'd upon in this An- fwer, be the chief Support of his Caufe, I am afraid he will find it but a weak Support ; and hope to con- vince the Public, from the Reafons I fhall give, that my Reafon in this Debate is as little impaired as either his, or his Friend's who writes for him ; therefore 'tis but a poor, low Attempt toanfwer the grofs Falfities he would endeavour to impofe upoR the Public, by his Frozen Straits, Tides, CurrenS and Rivers, hoping by this Means to prevent any ferther Attempt being made to find out the Paffage, which muft of Confequence dcttet his falfe Ac- counts ; and therefore endeavours by ftraincd Affi- davits, and Altercations, to keep up'a Paper War, id mm Ti what he n to fomc gcr frefh 'er River, (i wemuft d^ which Fnd Maps accurately s Charts, 'Drontheim are any about 30 sride, and I fhould had never ade from who had nlnftance afFeded, comes to "apis. If this An- im afraid pe to con- nive, that paired as or him ; ifwer the 3fe upoR CurrenS vent any Paflage, "alfe Ac- ed Affi- )er War, and they might h:>^TT^A^,■ ™ *^""' ''°'' """ch thaf would condu/e1h';V/* °*^^' ""'^ f™»> his Word hl^K ^ \^ ?"'' ''"' *« """ft take upon catrehZe a,!^ • .Tk^^**''*,'''^'' "^« Winter he ledg; w^ not mi ,• " T''*^'''"^''^^'^ °f Know. I therrfL K I ""°"^ '" '''S former Defence. of ss befej^rw'"'''' - "'■^^— of which there wi not Z7T" ""•'' " ^""""^'•« order tr, k ! k • , . "^ '"^ '*^*ft mention before, in HorTfon. HtletnlSf ''l'"" ^^ "^^"^^ ahn..f » . /^"w ne can make this out, that a Bov tl'tnoT^hrtS^JLVt'^'^'' °i'"""S^ them at CM whTre ^l f"?*/"^ '1?^'"'* ftould ftay a Y^r aiid h,l7 1'^^"^ a Faftory, - deilring them toTome , ^ 7"'' "'"'"• *'"'°« the Aif of Tn UnZh ' ''''^' ' "'"^ '^''^ P'^'"'^ M a'p?^^;r ''- f-eral time, heard iV... that the N^rthtfSS/ted nTf 't ""^T^ than 6,, and that therwen? W M W ' ^"u"'' Copper JVIine.- How will Th?. , n • .^- '° '^eir — ^-. .r^vwv rtiiy ainrms, ihat the f ( 30 ) the Company's Sloop which goes to PFhak C^w,- finds the Esktmaux Indians, from Eskimaux Point m6i% all along the Coaft lo Whale Cave -, ifthefe are Fafts, how can the Northern Indians live among their mortal Enemies, even 2 or 3 Degrees beyond their Limits. Befides, thefe Northern Indiatis tra- vel Southward of Weft to winter in a warmer Cli- mate, fo that they probably winter about the Lati- tude of Churchil, in 59. ' P. 29, His Obfervation about Froft is triflino- nippofe he had been once a Cook at Ckurchil, no Man will deny but he was their Linguift within the Bay, whether to the Northern or Southern Indians IS nowife material. He affirms that he travelled a coniidcrable way from Churchil N. W. and had a farther Account of the Country from the Indians who had been much farther in the Country Weft. Did none of the Northern Indians underftand any of the Southern Language .? Why not, as well as a Southern Indian underftand the Northern ; and could not Mr. Froji, tho» he knew not the Northern Tongue, find fomething out by an Interpreter, as well as Capr. Middkton. P. 30 and 31, He endeavours to juftify his Log£» and Journal, ag-iinft what he calls the Wafte-Book"! This Logg or Wafte-Book, in common Obferva- tion of what was feen each Watch, ought with Rea- fon to bejudg'd authentic, rather than any private Logg which contradias it : Every Man upon his Watch fets down what he obferved, the Bsarings of the Land, and Diftance from it, or any thing elfe remarkable ; fo that if Whales had been feen upon the Watch, they would have minuted them down as feen,\yith as much Exadlnefs as the Capt. fo that the Captain's minuting down Whales feen at 4 /?.«?. upon comingoutof^^^^rRiver,isnoEvidence,as they were not feen by any of the Watch, or it would have been 'oak C^w, ux Point, ?; ifthefe ve among s beyond Ham tra- rmer Cli- the Lati- 5 trifling, rchil^ no (within the 1 Indians ravelled a id had a ? Indians Weft.— land any i^eJJ as a rn ; and Northern reter, as or lis LogL, le-Book. Obferva- ith Rea- private pen his B tarings ling elfe :n upon down as that the m. upon ley were ve been ( 3' ) . cnrer'd in, the Waft^ n,,^' • . brought it in Evidence bTfome'^p''r ''""''' *»-' feen them on Board the Fu°Ze uT "i"" ^<^ any Intention lo impofe uonn ^l;. d ?,' ' "'^d 'he Point in Queftio^Lw^en s A *'"''^ " notm this Cafe to be bdkved .^^"l^'^-'S'" Logg-Book. "'^ '^"5''M.againft the great tarn's. In anfwer to m„ r ^ ^l^" ^'•°™ 'b^ Cap, °f^or3 WhSr4rJulen'f'''' 1'^''-'« B«rd the Z);7«z„^ he .. ! f Z^*" ^« O" 'r*^^^. ('ho- all were^' but f/^ K ""^ "^ ""'« ^he other Ship cot^d have no Eff "i '" """^ * Eye.fight.-Tho' they farrh" ^"^^ "Pon their "^ery yet that ,vas no fcf?h °" ^""^'^ 'h^^DiT- Board the /■«,•»«„. yet he^^ 'h ^'^"■•= *"«=« °n himfelf fa„ them j and Iftv t ^^g, .%s, he dence, if true, tha they werJVeen P''u''"""8 Evi- ls no Proof that they Sen bv h'''' ^'^""^' Wge F,fi,. *ex4t'orX ml 7,,^ ^'« - 6J. 20. but does not fay fo nTar^,"" S' 8°^ '» ?ffirm, which was in 65-2? ITTI-^'^"' "^^ 'ng th-sin hisjournal. a^d teini fil"^ h,s mention- "ntil he was fome time in S R ' 'ftf^^rds, ^'^-vide„thecojfnt:tK:il^« lammtJ ( 32 ) jjmm'd up with Ice, until he got up to Savage Sound j fo that the Ice prevented the Whales from being there. ' He then fays, he believes no other Journals have taken notice of any Whales, till his Return to the Head-Land in 6^"^^ 20.— and then would have the Strefs I lay upon the Whales, to be a trifling Inci- dent i yet I don't fuppofe any of my Readers will thmk them fo, fince they don't come in through Hudfon^i Straits. Then follows a Paragr. Dout the Falfity I charge him with in his LetCu the 5th of F*^., 1742, which I beg the Reader may obferve, how artfully he clouds and evades it, fo as to impofe upon his Readers. His Words are thefe : "He(Mr. D^3^j) " fays, I acknowledge I have feen Whales both at our " going into and coming out oOFager ^iver, and " that talfify'd my former Letter, by my Proof H amounting to no more than Three ; Now if •« Mr. Dobbs will allow the Number Three to be in « the Plural, I think it is evident I advance nothing « but the Truth, in faying we had feen Whales, " confequently I have not falfify'd my Letter."— Now obferve how this can be any Anfwer to what I charged him with in p. 27 of my Remarks. The Falfity I charg'd him with in that Let- ter was this 5 that by his Journal he hadallow'd, he had feen no Black Whales until after he had got into Wager River, and none who were on board him^ that I had feen, could pretend that they had feen any near the Mouth of Wager River j that he then loJd me in anfwer, that he had heard one or two blow ; and now, by all the Proof or Affidavits he produced, they were only feen on board the Difco^ very j but that in hi* Letter of the 5th of Feb. he cxprefly fays, they had feen Whales without ^/jr^^r River near to Cape Dobbs, after they came out, and before ther one oHhree th^"^' ""/ '^'"^ ^ do whe- « Singular or p!.,«i" *='^/^''". "r whether that me, and to induce m?m L . ?'"''" '° '''"'^^ feen above i"^SomHL"" '''f ""^ ^''=''« ern Ocean hT affi^^M l!°r f °™" ^'°'" ^ h= Weft- and in 630' ,0 S''<' ''f"'^' ,"•«'"= ''«" ">ere. ^^''f^r Riv^r n^ar r '"^",^"^"1 Whales wichou having no Proof nf, f" ''^Z""'" °"'' ^"d no«r in,tha^tthe«forethat La"\^%" ^'''"' ''^ "^"' r-ng Chen. SetS "wt^rid".''''';"' >t was wrote with a n.fi„n \ , ' ""'' ''""efore therefore his AnflTf^ ° '^'-'"" '"^- ^' "ot pofidon ? "^" ''"' 'J""^ •'•" E-^fion and Im- Mafte?t;eryd'""°hat'^ '"i" , "'f ^''^ ^icut. or a Strait 4 Leases "dfC-'''«/'l'"^ "^'-^ ^« thev were in .rt, ■ u S°'"S ^- S- W. or that MaC nd atta?b mv vr'" '^.^^-d-nd S.W dence for it m ,h7r ",'^' ^""^ "'^""'x Evi- Matter faid the S,^L k Evidence, wherein the them was 4 Leacfuef^i^/ri "^^ "^"d. North of which he ifad ow •dSe'befe tf '^^•'•^• wde. and Jed away S W fn^ ^.r^ . leagues what he had faid before- ;« t w' '^'^'""^ '^°'n to the 2d Ouert h, • '^ " *"' ""■'"'•■" Anlwcr only refer; ^hl'Ren^'^'' no Anfwer to.it. but the Query. P°"' '''"^'^ '^■'' "° Anfwer tg In his Anfwer to the firft Q.]erv h^ ,ir„ from h s Renni-r u.. /" .^^"Vy ie alio varies after com i!!!^' ^^, ''>''"S. the Courfe he fteered «fter coming up to the BluJ Land, was N. N w! % when ( 34 ) when in the Report he owns it was W. N W by Compafs, which was W.S. W. true Courfe.* P. 35 he owns, he never try»d paffing over the River above ^^x;^^^ Cove, under Pretence it would \ull r ? °^".° ufe, taking it upon his Word, that in thofe Latitudes a PalTage would not be open two Weeks in the Year, and many Years impraSicable. In next Paragraph he refers to his former Anfwer, about his failing fo near the Coafl, from Cape Dol^l^s to Brco.c Coi^ham, as he could poflibly do for Shoals and Rocks ; and where I, in my Anfwer, had de- tected h'm of l^alfities in Oppofition to the original ■ Log, which he calls a Wafte-book, and would have be believed to be of no Credit again ft his Log and Journals ; but would infinuate, that I had made Ra- lures in it, as it might eafily be done, it being wrote m feveral Hands ; and Ihews that all his Loes and Journals, taken aboard the Fur?tace, are more^uthen- iick as well as the two Mates in the Drfcovery, for he throws Capt. Moor's out of the Lift, becaufe it was not taken from his own Log and Journal, as all tne others were. Now as to what depends upon his V eracity and mine, about my altering »the Log. and corrupting his People by great Promifes, in or- der to ruin him, tho' it could be of no Benefit to IZSa^'^ '^ '^'''' ^' "° ^'^'^' ' y« I have this great Advantage over him, that I am endeavourincr, with all my Reafoning and Intereft, to have t brought to the Teft, whether he, or I, is the Man of Veracity, and have adled for the Publick, by m:ilang another Tryal, which muft clear his Cha- racter, if he IS right, and nothing dft can, and if I am wrong muft expofe me, and all thd Evidence I have product againft him ; whilft he is labouring, with all his Art and Cunning, to avoid, by the rhetorical and flowing Wit and Sophiftry of his l^^manuenfis and Compofer of his Work, in order to preven (35) frZZ-X^'^'T'^','}'''^ his unfair Proceeding/ rrom Der y brought to iio-ht ^unjg^?, ftev. that this ram: WalSbo kt^e'roT'dr mon Occurrences -Z »: h ' ^°'""^'"Sh ""d "^om- each Moment thVvwer.nh^r'' "'7' "'!■""'"'' ''°^" had Art enough to draw in aS his Officerrto wk! mtht^:ntf T "^ ^°S '•"'^ Journal "hat hey might all appear to concur in whatever he fet Hn«,7 which he told them would fave theragrea de7of tmuble. and as it was the fame Voyairi could ,h, f"° f '° ^''P ^^"f^™' Log-' or'^Jouraals and therefore he may well alledge that they alT a: "nd therefore his (S„ „T j" ' Cot-pP^-D^^^^. own Aft, he was aniwerfb e i^^r kit' ^""^^'" ' eer • Hh „ "-'>■ """^rv II cnai (_oaft without D ger. He owa, u was fine clear W.ather X" pan,'d. (40) afs'd it. The Coaft, he fays, lay, Variation al- owM, S. W. and N. E. Co that a S.E. Wind bl«rw direflly upon that Coaft : By his own Log the Wind was from E. by S. to N. E. by E. fo that moft part of the Time it blew along the Coaft •, and when it blew moft upon it, he could fteer above four Points wide of the Coaft : Why could he not then have lain by, off JVhakbone Point, as well as Southward of CAptFulierion, if he had an Intention to have try'd the Tide, or Openings there ? The Wind continued E.^. E. almoft all next Day, which" did not blow upon the Coaft ; fo that if his Inclinations had been to have try'd thefe Openings or Tides, he had an Opportunity of doing it without Danger, as well as he did afterwards at the Head-Lands near Brook Cobbam, and at Marble Ifland, the Wind blowing then full as much upon the Coaft ; fo that in his prudent Courfe he is not to be juftificd, nor can his Aft of Council fcreen him from juft Reflec- tion in that Part of his Conduft. In his Courfe afterwards from Cape Fuller ton^ on Wednefday the nth, at four in the Morning, by his Log, he was four or five Leagues from the Coaft ; by the Great Log, or Wafte-book, he was five or fix, a League further off, but takes no notice of the Diftance all that Day by his Log ; he at Six at Night fays in his Log-book, that he continued failing in Sight of the main Land quite from Cape Hope^ yet from eight in the Morning until fix at Night, by his Log it was hazy, and at that Hour, by the great Log, the Entry is, — Saw the Land all along the North Shore, diftant from it feven or eight Leagues. How then, fince it was hazy for eight Hours, could he pretend to know it was a main Land, at feven or eight Leagues Diftance ? Or how can he pretend to fay, that he made there a narrow Search, cloic by the Shore, as near as he could for Shoals and He Place fays that ^h.r^ f""'^^'^' ' '^'^ " another whenlleftitfnrh. ij '• I ™ '''"«»« none « has^blTen do"elff'"''^* and if any be now, torkkS F°" 'V'"""? "P *'■"' the flowing Rhe- only fay thit Liv./£! '.'"'^ P'" """^^ ' ""d Ihall /JUv! "^""''ff'^fi ^"cbes when the Sort ■mzom'tt^T' ^ "?T°" '*° B°«s a-head tow- one "t islln'?'- ";''' ''•^hS ""'• J°"f''^J fays but depended Sn Jnd^rS'^ J°""'^' '•'^ "°' "> ^ ^Sare. tRot^^'^hatehl^VtJ: '"" loft, yetallows^e^fnt afcon'lhf Sth'l' "??." and trufted the Ship to theMafter wLv J'"''l'^' mean by that AnfLr ? „ ■ ^^^'^ '^'^ ^^ went aftore at Cape Fn>;5* B.fS' ^°" *'''" ^^ fine^Day when che^L^'tas oS'Ilh:^""^ ""» .V.^P^ /'n^/^, and when rowino^ tht Shmc J Tide, a°d1^^oki'l ou° for ^r '' '^ "^'""^ 'he nf KJo r» ''^""''"6 f^ui ror Upenings, was no P;»rt- ^o da '' ""'^" '' "" "'-"ft '^-^ -i-le he td at L^*/; l''fl!,!:r;„''?,.^A.f'- Lieutenant afl^orc G 3 in ihc Mornjne. to» when ^Zh^r IT J ^*Sujs to the Shore, in dm Evenin2'/?l> ^^ '"u'*^^""' ''''^ '^^ ^hor. till refiof ?h; M u°' "'^' ^''^ '■' '^"S not 'he weak- great Lrro^r^' "^^ ' ^'""^ ^""'"^ °PP°^'<^ '^"^ vai ed fvL f '-r'" "°' '''^ Flood Current pre- tne Weltward, does it not (hew that the Flood oppofed them frcm .he Weft, otWrwife they St h2got,.n wuhthe Flood before, a? So fhis Ob!e; v,u,on makes againft him. inIfr^.T^^^' ''"""^""'"ch.thathewill r^ew, PraA^rST-H "'r'^y.^SnPrance of the Theory and Tid« l.fi;"''"'''' *.''° ""J^-rtond the Theory of JTides, whether or not he and l>is Friend arenoteroflv fteL hO ""P°'^,"P°" ^^^ t'ublicki and ftalj ftro:gi;aSM:r'^^'''^°^^'-^^=*^^'^-^- DIHf £i^; ''^ ^"°'? 'El"^ ■' •••" "<""• and half's DiHerence between the Tide at ChurtbiUx^A Water R.ver which I (hall produce as Partof my 3 a|amft h,m, thatwhatheadvances upon hrTheoTy H„I r"' " '^'""S'^^o"' hisown'^Conceffion. ^ Am huml^° q'-mmg theDifcoverythe 4th of he eM L °o!:r ™"'^'^' "^^"^^ "ot he confidered iiere, nor his Obfervations in p. 46 flood Ifrl" a'"' ""^ I"ft"'>^^i"ns can't be under- sea the T,"^ T '" "'^.Co^rfe, only fo far as to meet the Tide ; for by dirc-ft ng hir- in ffettino- ^"eeT'ttSd"' rf ' ' '" ^'^' - ^"-" ' cTs >, ,h ,. r ,' '"/"'''' " "'"^ North-wefterly, c. South-weftcrly, for, ,n that. I had taken in 26 Points W- '^ f- ^^' '° '»»'^« up 26 Points is a Stroke extraordinary, and only to^ cloud the Cal The next Paragraph, he pfays upon n^y Intel" gr. 48. he won't allow the Gunner's Drauah^ Hir,AT^ 1 "'^ ''"' Admiralty, to whom it was whk'h he G^nn ™he'n ^a! ^M^f °' ''^ '"'? '" hin.adoub.e|^'ir?Utl:randte^^^ both don't make up the widenefs of his. theareatfft being not above 3 Leagues wide, full of £5 and quite-frozen over, the other much lefs ■ for hv ^^P^,f ^!.Anfwer, it was but 3 M.l oVer !1^ A noble Paffage for his Whales and Tide r. 49. he falls foul of me, bccaufe I wrote imn™ hearfay. as to the Rapidity Jf the TdrmVC nuous *I fav \r'%'^'"' '*> ""^ « ="1 difeng.- owns ioaSlV 1^ ^'"^ 7 W 9 Knots, Capt. M.cr Kt?"ril^,'^^''!'Z ,■-'- C'"k w/o wrote Lit ^^ - y— -«'^, ^iu maKesi[ a Keaiorj of his ^2 , Prgbicyj ( 44 ) Probity i for he fays, had he an Intention to impofc, o/ cxpedtcd to have had his Charadier attacked, he would have examined it more clofely. I am apt to beheve he did not exped to be attacked, by a Land- Man upon his own Element, and therefore when he thought he had lull'd me aQeep, which he fancied was done when he fent me the Journal, he did not think fit to alter the Journal, otherwife it is plain he would have alter'd it, as well as he has done his Log 5' for it feems much more probable, that he alter*d his Log here, than falfe copied his Journal : For fee, p. 82. of his jippend. the Lieutenant's Jour- nal, wherein it is alfo enter'd, that the Tide had fallen two Feet, and the Flood came from the Northward, which he would evade there, by faying It was a manifeft Contradidion to ebb and flow at the fame Time; and fays, it was no Wonder he ihould miftake Ebb for Flood, when he miftook in Pomt of Time 5 Days in PPager River. However, this unfolds a Secret, otherwife it would be a full Proof agaioft him ; and that is, his over perfuading the Lieut, as well as Mafter, to make out his Jour- nal from,the Captain's Log and Journal ; for fince the Voyage was the fame, fo muft the Journals be. Now if the Lieut, had made out his Journal upon the Voyage, how could he copy it from the faulty Copy, he fays he fent me, without examining it ; but if he took it only from the Captain's Log-book, then 'tis plain the Capt. has aker'd the Log-book, and not falfe copy'd his Journal, as he would here infinuatej this Obfervation of the Lieut, was at 3 p. fh, on the 6th of Aug. one Day after full Moon, io that It muft have been High-water about two a Clock ; if fo, a S. by W. Moon made High- water ; but m cafe it fhould have been a falfe Account, and that It was flowing Water, and had only two Foot to flow,one of which muft have been the Cafe, in eit her > I Hieh^ water there qioI l . . '. ^' '^<^" made nea? which hLwS if bu't If" "j"'"" ^^'"^'' ^°'"'' ^nW where hT^o^id " a\e 'I,^^a 'T k'^T Moon made High-water, howcou Idhis CuL^'' ^^ iidc, from Cape Fn'^iJ m..!,- ti- l ^"^renr, or Points, or 2 Hiurf 7f MJ i^'^^"^^^"'* ^^^e^^* 3 Caoe ^-wlw f ^ '^'"- ^^'"^^e*" f^an the Tide ar ^^^J'rtgtd, from whence he would have jV.^ ^ would much eafier be behevM rh.r7i, ^''"'^' *^ taking his own Acronnr a ,^ r ^^^ ^"rrenr, W. by & ]^o^- marHi'htatSf -^ry •''/ as he would have it believed 1^.,^ T ^"^'^^ and muft ftiU have K frL q ^T ''''^'" "'^••^. butitappea.. from S mT r^::'^^"^'^r^'^ * by that Current until after so^rb?!""^''''^''*^ carried aftern tho> he hS a brl^ r .'''".°'y' '"'"^ great deal depended here unonL^''"' '^ "■« » was rifing or^alling Wa"rJ^3"*7'"g' "''^•''^^^" prudent in the Caot if I- j therefore it was thePaflage,topre?en the/i '"""'7'^ '° ^""^"'l rftu^S«:fsiSl'^^^^^^^^^ %JHrret:ati&-'i^^^^^^"r- % I wrote without a M^n ng"but"obT "°"''* often a great Help to a bad Ca!,fc & °'"'""'y '» Pooris this h^fZ. ) 7^°, 'I' «<^ How poor is this An?;rrrD7iri?. - - — / J »ij that ( 46 ) that the South-weftern Tide flow'd through al[ the broken Lands, from fVhak-cove and Marke liland, to Wager River, and flow'd up part of IP'ager Ri- ver, as well as to Repulfe Bay, until it met the con- trary Tide from the Weft BluflF near Deer Sound ? Is that faying, it flow»d through Wager River, or that the Tide through Wager River filled Repulfe Bay and the Welcome ; where is the Obfcurity in this, except the Shade he endeavours to throw over it ? P. 51. he fays, that my Obfervation about Ran- ^^»'s opening near Marble Ifland, is fully anfwercd by him, in his former Appendix^ p. 154. I appeal to the Reader, whether after examining my Re- marks upon that Anfwer, it was any thing but Eva- fion, and whether hi^ flighting it now does not fhew, that he could give it no other Anfwer ; whether in his former Defence he took any notice of it, but in the Appendix^ which I allow'd he did, or I could not have oblerv'd- upon it; or whether it is a fufficient Anfwer to fay,' he treats that Account of the Lieutenant's with the Contempt it deferves? It is plain, by my putting in Parenthefis Wager River, that I had no Defign to impofe, by ihewing it was my own Remark, the Defign of the Qiiery being upon the Difcouragements given in Wager River, not knowing, at that Time, any thing of the Opening near Marble Ifland ; and I therefore prefume the Lieut, anfwered only to that Point to which the Query was direded. P. 52, his Anfwer about Macheath\ Evafion, vhich he fays was to contradidt what the Lieute- nant, &c. faid, and what Land-men had told him, is trifling. Did he not fl:ay a Winter in Churchil himfelf, and obferved the Tides when there, and can he fay his Letter to me was then upon Hearfay ? In only f™,„ ^,,, wUh hisM'^fiX';"^'' %''' does that appear? He hac n.^J^^ r •? — ^^^ what he means of his own Obfcmtfn t' /^' Frozen Strait, wliirh i<, ,i,- d • ' ' " *' his whichUaveUn towttfc? ""r'r' '" the Publick. ' "»' "npoftd upon Wai Addition, that it w^^^nl^Ste /?- him Service: I fay, it wafnor h, f 'i^^" '° '^o Juftice. and in m/'iuMS.Thf^S ""^^^ ne opens our Corrpi^^«^^ . ^ iJerence, Letcfrs he thSt^"tr' ?"! P"»^^ '*''« us. in l>is own Juft ifiS ^.I f\'"'^'^'^ ^'^'"^ an Odium uponme Sif r'h!^ "^^l''""°" f°«ft mifts todra^whir^tui ,S~^!.':™ -ft P™- engagein the Difcovery a„drhC ^ ''"'"' '» rum hisCharafter. dZ not tt.%-? °" '° from any Promife of Sit Leueff r ™' rationa that he /honlH n,,i r r .^"^rs ? Is u ftopp'd, and bTZg*^ toco7eafc\''T''^ "« would make againft him? n. "l^'^ '''°"ght that Correfponfence rZfe m/f "°\'"' °P^"'"g when it waf neceffa'v to ^.fti?^ '""P '''" P™"'"*. fionsi or had I anvV^I ^ ""' ^""^ ^''^ ^'per- ing his Letters fecret he tT '^n'^'"'^ '" keep, lofing his ZTkl't.t '"^ '"""g '° f«t but Comfan;-: Service^ whLh h"! TP'"^^'^ ■" ^he '•ng into L M >ft>s sSp S„^r","Pu'?y S°- whijft / ( 48 ) , whilft he was in the Company's Service, that Twas under that Obligation, as any Difadvantage he could receive was only from them. He afterwards fays, making out'the Paflage could nn way prejudice the Company's Trade : I leave that to the Publick to be judge of, whether a Com- pany upon a precarious Title to a Monopoly by Charter, without A6t of Parliament, which oblig*d them to find out thatPaflage, which they had neglefted and dilcouraged, if that Paflage had been found, whether all the Merchants in England would not have jnfifted upon their Right to Trade, both in the Bay and beyond it, and have petitioned againft their Charter, and opened their Trade. He fays then, that all the Encouragement he gave me, was from Journals and Accounts before he let out. What other Encouragements could he give me, or I exped from him : He fays, that could not be calfd Encouragement, when he re- fjfed going himfelf. Does it appear from his Let- ters, thac he refufed going himfelf? does not the contrary appear ? did I ever prefs him to go ? was not the only Time I mentioned it to him, in my Letter of the 20th of Nov. 1737, which was in very modeft Terms ; that if I knew his Inclinations as to attempting it, or any of his Friends, I would promote it, for whoever found it would deferve a Reward from the Publick ? This was far fhort of my promifing him a Royal Grant of all the Lands he fhould dilcover, which, without any Foundation or Proof, he would endeavour to infinuate I had promifed him. And what was his Anfwer to this my Defire of knowing his Inclinations ? In his Letter, Jan. 21. 1737, he fays. For my own Parr, I confels, I fliould be ambitious of attaining the Honour of fuch a Difcovery, and fliould hope very much that Succefs would crown the Undertaking ; but K , T ,. ' ^ 49 ) « Joias7Lrauf"i"T'^'" ">" Company an Uncertainty", and Ln 7 11 "P'^i""*^"' "P°" mentions, ateutmv keel" v'T *'''' *" •>"= ftouiddiLardliim L f "^Secret, Jeft they only wl,iifl ;' t« in the,r°l^'- " r"'"' '*'" " ^^ Secret f -"^ ^""='' ^ was to keep tiie not aFainty, to nrove ' , p ^ ' •^°"''"^y «'^'' peal to the Wo^ and cut "^'i;' ^ ""' ""'^ "P" & Le«er to me of Mr/f I n'- '^'P""' "^^^ "'"^ vations atthe^Ilj; "^'.^P'"'°"' ^^^ Obfer- Ijere he fall fouU^S slf? ' /°"''"'''- ^ow ing what he had heard S"^ Account, "'S"^'- Letter. thatXr t^t ?f " ?"? J-^ °wn Paffage near ^Ilfo^Po L^^'rl ''""^ ^'^ =« with what he favs rh„ v '''*' confiftent Year N. W bv il? i,^'''^ 'l'''^"''^ a'moft a Sun run ingZVtt'Ho^i? '"' '"^?-'''' ''^ <"»*">' ' law neither Sak River Tr.f " ' cu'' I." ^'" J""^"''/ Compu^tion hewS^ft.rS;"'" "f" ^"'^ he could not have been r>f n • • ^ '1 — ~^°' then a Paflage in 65"' "'.^''■f^ ^fT",,""'' ''«'= was /"» fet out in §uh anH ' /■ M !i ''? *"°""' '^at Ncr- mer Defence.^ Ty rt 'w ' H^^ '" ''^ f"-- then fee the Sun nfn r^u„H ;k •«"?7 '""'"^ Ke p.^8.to.voidZAb?uX L^Tf":; "^ '" Year and half i if fo h^^,l'l^' "' ""' °"t a from July to he End of „«f ,'j"'' "^"^''^'^ N. W. Sight.Vd ft^d t^trS/^^-^nte Countries, which even the Northern r j^°^^ "'^ -d go Southward in WmStlha^feS (50) way he will, it is inconfiftcnt, and appears to be t falfc Account made out to anfwcr his Purpofe. P. S7' is taken up in obferving about fome loofe Sheets he fays was taken out of h'°"'l 'h= ^7 «m»i,,. „fcE, n,"r » f'*, « romt in Hand. H Pjf^ 11 .' ( 5Z ) P. (i6. he grants, that the Ice between Cburcbil and H^haU Cove was inconfiderable, fybale Cove lying among Iflands at fomc Diftancc from the Main i this is a Concefllon I did not expcft from him, plainly fhewing it is a broken Coattj for how does he know it is the Main that is beyond thefe Iflands ; none of the Company's Sloops go within thefe Iflands, except Smiib, who went once within them, and law no Main beyond them j yet in next Paragraph he avers, that all the Shores within Mar- hie Ifland were faced with Ice, though he never faw any Land but 3 Iflands, until he came in fight of Marble l([md^ and never mention'd, in any Journal, any Ice fecn till beyond 64**. 20. though he men- tions Snow fecn on Marble Ifland. How then, but to ferve his Purpofe, can he afHrm, without Proof, that ail was lined with Ice within Marble Ifland ? In next Paragraph, he is a little evafive in his Account of being frozen up in Sepiember^ by only affirming it is a Fad all Journals will corroborate, without giving one Inftance, or pointing out the Place where; very probably it was in the Bottom of the Bay, if at all, fince he does not give an In- ftance ; for what he fays of Spurrel's being faft m Ice near Mofffel, does not prove he was fait. And in next Page, as he affirms, the Sea does not freeze but from the Shores progreffively, unlefs Spurrely by bad failing, had got into fhoal Water clofe to Man- feC% Ifland, how could he be faft: by his own Prin- ciples, if he had kept in deep Water, from the Shore. He, in fame Page, reafons againfl: the Sur- face of the Sea's freezing in a calm Night, even a Quarter of an Inch, confequently in blowing Wea- ther it can't freeze at all ; if fo, how could he be afraid of being inclofed in Ice, unlefs he wilfully went into Bays filled with Iflands of Ice > He al- ledgesalfo, if the Sea could freeze a Quarter of an 2 Inch would have 3 in thrr '"'*'" '^°"'''' ""= ^^ many L«Kue7ronnH 1 1"""' ^'" ^^ ^'^-^hcs thicli Motfon . He Z. ' r ,'""'* P^'*"^"' » Ship'. « it poflibly cod fr^ "xt" ''■*'^y.« much in al^VV Ither nTV." " ,^'e'".i^''*ing warm he lays, he has b^en Zl i S ''?, '"^"'b,r, whea that in A Jof hi, l^f •" 1" ^°""'e''' i" •J'?'- drifting Snm^^'Z"Tf'^ '? T,",.^ hard Gales and handle a Sailor keen irA"!"" ^"""'" ^°**^ «» Reafon to fay & ^"i'' ' *" ''>" ^ had juft have nofcleareC;" i'*"'' ""^ '""^''', that I Opcn,ngsSfc^^''«'"^"i'» Report pf the Report, w'herci!, h^^ nt ons" it tfcL' ' /"""'' tho' he m ght have hpJ ™ ft 1 ^ «-ompafs, yet the OpeninVaoDelr.?^ ^ ^" ^' *" 'he Points as others offis E^ W ^^ ^'^\\ ^"^' "» '^'H werefeveralapnarfnTonr^'"' f°'^' 'h« there wh.ch were ZZ'df^^"Tl ""iK"^- ^hore. great Caufe to exult uoo„' u "'f • '''= ''"^ "° '""^h (.avingbeen exaft tfetrg th'/i'b^C ''^ T -eor..,;Cr^-rB,^--,t- ReporcrCoft;^:::r„i^^^^^^^^^^ orfglna, ix%^";be^rd'?~^^ «heMa«er.aLtiS^f^--:hg Keport; ( 54 ) Report. The Captain, in his printed Log, fay» the Lieutenant and Mafter brought on board, by his Order, two B-Jttlcs taken up along-fide of the Boat, one at Dtffr Sound, the other lo or 12 Leagues above it, being the higheil they went up, the latter tafted but barcJy brackifh, the Tide flowing there no more than 6 Feet, but no Flood, run up fo hiah afitbat. In the Extraft of the Lieutenant's Journal of re- markable Obfervations, wJiich he has thought fit to publifh, which appears in all remarkable Minutes, as a Copy from Middkion\ except in this Inftance when he was in the Boat, and not in the Ship ; where I fuppoie he added this Obfervation, but miftook the Time he fct down his Remark, which Iplainly ftews if was not fct down at the Time, and there- fore he miftook in putting it down to his Return from Deer Sound, where he was the 24th. Here the Captain obferves in the Extraft, Append, p. yy, that he makes no mention of his fpecious Strait hading away S. W. His Account in his Extrad is this. ** 7«/v 24th. Frelh Gales with much Rain j *' at 6 in the Morning I return'd with the Boat, ** the River being full of Ice, (which fo far was true on that Day near D^er Sound ; the reft of the Ob- fervation relates to his going up the 28th with the Northern Indians) *' having been 25 Leagues or *' better up the River, and feeing many large " Whales of the Whale-bone Kind, finding deep *' Water all the Way ; no Ground at 67 Fathom : •* I found feveral Iflands in the Middle with 30 Fa- " thom Water clofe along-fide of them. I went to *♦ the Top of the highelt Mountain I could fee, «* and faw a very high, mountainous Land on both "'Sides of the River away to the Weilward.'* In his Obfervation, p. 83 of his Appendix on /%.6th, he again touches upon this Miftakc of the Lieute^ . . nant's. or -ore VK^.'r r fKh"^- «• W- from W. N. W. or W or W S w I.''* ^°""S Time he had not Z 7 a ^■^\^- but at that ftruflions Advantage of Mr. /X,«A In- ^SiKint It S'^T'"" '"^^'■"g f°' Cape, this iMinJr was pu CZZTV^ ^' not willing toacceot h.Vfi,^ d '"''"'' '''« C'apt. atter'd it and llgnM th'oA^^ T'f "."'"'»« ''«i therefore he made rhf. M ' '*"'' "'='^aft«,and aferward..fuS,1 if "R",'^'"P°''-«'e copying wifh the Cinfam» report, and to a»ree fcrs fromSr"oi^t''Rerr'f/"f"V ^'•^^'«°^^' the River cameCm K'ftw.tf''K"'^u''*y'' *« tainous Land beine on h^r « T ''z ^^ '''« '"«>"n- to the Weftward f forta, all 11^ '•''' 'J'^'' ^'^''y compliment the Cam he h L "1i ' " '-*'' '* ftrad of a Strait • but m (^f '' " * R'*«' >'*i Salt-water, I CioulZ'^l'^ The V'^^'^' *"^ Log fays, the Bottle of wVl I ??'• "> '»'* along-fide of the Boaf at the hi^h "ft" b^ "^^ were at, was barely hllin,^2''f^.^Jf«t''ey Evidence of all oXrs »„ ' rT'"'"'' "^^ '>>« taken up at dJ Sound ' wTch'' rf '' '^ ""'« good Evidence, GmlJtr u^'^ "» ^"^f/ Sound, and but bar^v E! T,! P°?'''^ "«■• -Dw ^P, th^frelher. Th^Sft'^h^^r' '^"^ '"'g''" floWd at thehigheftpK,,TL^' ^*5"' ">« « fun up fo hishls tW M f ^^' ^"t no Flood ConfiLncy If this L^n: '^' "^confider the barely brackift, by Gi^bftr.r""'' K""" ^'^ about 12 Leasue7bev^„H?K ^*P'- «tHehigheft b«cfcilh, therfdeS t^'V" ^" ft'» barely 6 Feet, ^ho- ir ™J?'.?^°':'''"g to Wm. rofe bu? - ■- -i-i^ca u,at B uncertain, as they diet (56.) did not ftay a Tide to know : Howeycr, I will fup- pofeittrue, and, according to him, the. flood did not runup lb high y this h to prove it to bea Itiver, 'that it was at the End of the Tide, where the Tid? riies but does not check the Current, fo that the Stream (till runs downward, tho* the Water rifes : If this be what he means in his Log, and it can tc no other, how then could the Water taken up jalong-fide of th? Boat be brackifli at all ? it was barely fo 1 2 Leagues lower i the River where they were ran^Ivvays down ward,, ^d was only raifed by the Tidf^.inufl: it not,.iIien" have been abfolutely Jreih near that Fall ? hut yet they all allow it was jbrackilh ; even Guy himfelf lays not otherwife, tho* to make tjie mQft of his Oath, he fays higher up it wa^ freflier ftill , .. ' . Let us dbferve the Thames^ which he often appeals to, as a parallel with fVager l^iver, and is it not freih ^t London Bridge, though the Flood Current runsupagainft the Current of the River above Ricbmondi How then could the Water be brackifh at Wager River above the Cur- rent of the Tide, fo that by his own ConcefTion and Obfervation it was a fait Strait *, and Captain Moor^ as well as others, allow all the Ice in Wager River was a Salt-water Ice, and all the Weeds at Bottom, even higher than Deer Sound, was Sea- ware or Egg- weed, which is never in frefli Rivers. The next Paragraph, and p. 72 and y^^ is taken lip in denying his being ever offered the Bribe of 5000/. or his ever informing me of it, denying it upon his Veracity, and putting it upon his Veracity and mine. As to that Fad and Affertion of mine, that he told me fo, this hp faintly denied in his De- fence, faying, if it was offered, I clear him of it, by owning that he refufed it; had he own*d now that he had told me fo, it would have been fome Proof towards his Veracity, but as he here pofitively de- mo's (57) nies It, and pm it upon his Verarifw ,„a -• « only fay, tbit tho' !%!,„, ii ?? ^^ *"'! '"'"*. I the Affuran^ Z,".* /"/P'? '' ''« "'""W have refofed ft) that L n """n " '^'"^ ""^^is having Jeave it to hiTown r r^ *' *^°'"P'">' ' ""^ 'h^" or not S did ^f"''""^'"'''' ''''". *h«her beinc DmS»'H? 1-^"""' "'^"^ ""''h that Sum's "i«/h^rac1traS;ire' ^^'' f -^-' ^^ theHindTSweefrnkin^r-^^r \"'' '^^^"^ ''^ haps ae* Je .r.l i&*^^°P'^> he might per- ImadVufeofXvSH^tr /!''■» ""^f^ys, him both Knave ani'S ^'STh^ir'' quamted me with that Coaft tetw e^ Sr / '"' that IravT not .^KieS a'^-^'"^ and' Whale.. %:Svt:&^f/'lf^?^^g^.»hich he ^ I ( 58 ) I had read j but if I had it from him, I don't think I would have been wrong in publiftiing it ; nor can any think, fince I never was. in thofe Coun- tries, that I could have any Account of it but from others j fo that I could not pretend to make it my own. I remember, that upon his once mentioning to me that there was a great Inland-Sea, difcovered near Cape Smithy in the Ray, fome hundred Miles in Circuit ; I told him, that I did not know but r that Strait mentioned by Davis in s^^^ might have a Communication with it, and if io, a Trade might be carried on there. He afterwards goes on at his ufual Rate to cleer himfelf, and load MeflT. Wygate and Thompfin, ap- pealing to Mr. Orr as a Man of Veracity, and to Gill and Lanrtck, two Friends and Neighbours of of mine. So far is true, that they are from my Country, and I knew fome of their Friends, but never faw Lanrick until he was recommended to me by a letter from his Friend, when I re- commended him to Mddleton^ and never had ktn Gill, nor was he ever recommended by me, ' jC only by Mr. Allen to him, and never faw him fince until Auguft laft, upon being told of his having mentioned that M n had employed him to write his Journal, and that he had, in fome Part of t.'ie Voyage, cut out 2 or 3 Leaves out of his Journal, and put in others ; fo that this is all the Knowledge or Friendfhip I had with them. P. 74. his farther Defence about the Words he faid, of being able to make the Voyage and none aboard him ihould be the wifer, whether there was a Paflagc or not, and that he would be a better Friend to the Company than ever. He endeavours, upon Capt. M?*r's Anfwer to that Query of his faying, that he heard him fay, that he could make the n't think it ; nor fe Coun- but from ike it my ioning to ifcovered •ed Miles :now but ight have a Trade 5 to deer pfon, ap- r, and to libours of from my 'nds, but nmended en I re- had ittn me. ut lim fmce is having d him to t Part of Lit of his is all the iT'ords he md none lere was a better leavours, y of his Id make the toePaffage, finftead of would make the Paffafff) know i,f?? ^"^ '^'^' N°"^ ''b°»fd h™ c^U ^ hi 7:f '"""^^"S «■" •» Royal Grant, fa ^^feS^ M his Tides Currents. Rivers and Strait and rTJdvTne "" -"^"'"2, 6rther than I Tve a" Zn,h.T' ■'«'''«'•»'* his continued Refleftions 5an?fS^S or " ^"' ^'"'^ --^ ^- • -P. 76. about Mr. Smith's Ascncv and finnrio rent about their Value, and n? S4"Lne 1 AffiS-rwr ''.''^l '° P'^y °ff his Friend 'and tlrSs toTh^ and Rhetorick ; but tho' not ma- renal as to the Difcovery, yet in his next Para f aph p. yj. I muft obferve upon the Manner h^ fays, I came by the Lift of Gg.ng them : He had before this! fnoke i^ IhU^'L ^"^^% ?'"^.«1'^ Opinion ifj which he wnnIH nU^A. iiivwij_w Hi —. ^. o ^ I Z Upon Z'- o^. was upon a Defign ( 6«' r Defign we had cnter'd into of fitting out a Shi^ for thatTrade 5 and therefore he alledges, he was in*-- debted to me only Four Guineas ahd a Half, which' he was ftitl ready to pay me -, this laft Part I abfo- lutely deny, having* no Intention then to trade in the Bay, but only to attempt the Difcbviery : How could it be fo when^ he was in a King's Ship, and went upon the Difcovei-y ? If this wjts our Inten- tion, why did I not put Goods on board him ? And yet he Would affirm I did it clandcftinely by my Agent J but the Truth was, as he told mc, he want- ed to know the Legal Rights of the Company, and how far they were entitled to the Mohopoly of the Trade in the Bay, or thro' the Paflfage -, and as I then told him, I fliould be very glad to know more of the Climate, and Countries adjoining to the Bay, ind the Nature of their Trade : He told me he could furnifli me with fome Journals that were curious upon that Climate ; and the more fo, as the Company laid thern under an Obligation not to publifh any, and at the fame Time would . give me a Ihort Abftraft of their Trade •, To that it was with no View to keep it a Secret, as he had given- up the Company's Service, and feem'd not any ways afraid of their Difguft; yet now, to pleafe the Company, he would make it a Breach of Honour in me, and of the Seal of Secrety. — So far is true, that Mr. Smith took a Copy of the State of their Trade ♦, but I referlt to him, whe- ther, befidcs that, Capr. Middleton did not give him a further Account of the Goods he Qiould fend with his Brother, which I am no way concern- ed in. He owns afterwards, />. 78. that Mr. Smith talk'd to him of fending fome Goods with \m Brother, but makes them* fo trifling as 30 or 40 Shillings. Is it probable that he would mcnrk n fuch a tri- fling a Ship was in^-' , which' • I abfo- trade in' : How lip, and ir Inten- n? And r by my ic want- )mpany, jpoly of ;e J and to know ding to He told als that more fb, )ligation i would ; To that s he had m'd not lOW, to t Breach crety. — y of the n, whe- lot give M fend concern - tb talk'd Brother, Ihiliings. h a tri- fling (6i) f^^r^'' '"'.'''*?» ^' "^^^^^ *'* ^'^^ "Pori fend, ing Goods to fuch a Value? and therefore wh^he mentions of his Difcourfe with Capt. MZr^u^t onf^'(5!P'\!S.^i.'^*^'^g '^ '^' purpo4 but only to /hew his different way of thinking a that ^Z'^U^uT' ""mm^^ conformable to what u was when he prevailed upon me to get the At torney's O^nioh upon their Charter ^ fo the ^t^ partial Reader may obferve on which sfde Z Remarks h^e cut, whether againft himfelf or me *J^: ™^ Affiftant is very witty again, abotit Merring that he endeavoured to^play a 'doSSe Game, by getting an Order from the Admiraltv lecunng them m their lawful Commerce What Z^^T ^'^ r^''' "°"^^ '' not"'lfo W obhg d him to have proteded any other EnM fete wf^ u'> "^^ '''' ^q^-%^ mif^'i^^^^^ fr^'" the Attor- ney s Opinion, that their Mbnopoly was ijjefeal ? ^ry for the Company, at that Time: He after- wards intimates that I was Tegardlefs of my own Reputation m charging him with having go^t th^t Order, and Letters upon that next Day f?om the babiy he had warmer Letters to CburM, which he thought proper to conceal; he faying, 'that he Set into rr ^V^'' \^r^'^ ^" cafe V^ouFd not get into CW^;/, as the Winter fets in there three. Weeks later than at Cburchil, and that if I had Kf V^'^^^'^^^y> I ihould have known he had no Letter at all from the Company, thev being al direaed to the Admiralty.-JjuftifW inltrudtions, as he was at GaUnn\ R^o.u k.f„-. u« receiy'd (60 rfceiv'd them, and I had gone to Ireland the 29th of May^ the Day before they were fent to the Admiralty. ' . To- this I anfwer, that his being pleas'd to publifli in the Appendii( to his Remarks, only one Letter to Moefe Faftory, without mentioning any to the other Fadories, was Ground fufficient to me, 10 believe that the Letter to Churcbily which was much more neceffary, was wrote in ftronger Terms in his Favour : As to their being direded to the Admiralty, and not to him, that was no ways material, as it was only the Canal thro* which they went to him ; and now inftead of the Moofe Letter, he has, in his Appendix, inferted but one Letter, direfted to all their Governors ; fo that befides this general Letter fent to the Admiralty for him, he ftill might have had from the Com- pany, upon agreeing to their Terms, a ftronger Letter to Churcbil ; nor can I find any Reafon why he had any to Moofe or Albany ; for if he could not have got into Churcbil^ he could have return- ed to England ; for his going to the Bottom of the Bay was of no Ufe to the Difcovery, fince he could not poffibly get to the Welcome from Moofe^ time enough to make any Difcovery, the Bottom of the Bay not being open to fail Northward, mntil the latter End of July, at fooneft ; fo that a Paf- fage from England to the Welcome, may be earlier made than from Moofe or Albany. — Nor was my going for Ireland a Reafon why he (hould not ac- quaint me with thefe Inftruccions and Orders, tho* he was then at Gn there , appears the Day 5 in the Evenins: *,» Evening the Tide had fallen one Foot, fo that it is clear that ,t was Hlgh-water the 28th between A and ,2, ,t be.ng one Day before the laft Quarter , the Lieutenant and Maftcr went off at one/Yo that bv w^v nf^ "r^f "^^rOne: How can he then by way of Excufe fay, that it was (lack Tide, and the Flood juft commg on, when it was ebbing Wa- h/Vlf 1 r"* '^^'^ near 2 Hours? or how could he then lofe 12 Hours, if he had delayed it when there be any Danger.from the Ice, when they went at 2 Hours Ebb, againft the Current, when it was near the great. ft Velocity, here he an't J off by faying ic wa. a Miffprint, or wrong copy 1 as m other Places where he is pinched, becau.e 1 would contradia his whole Log and Journal but this ftews what Inconf.ftencies aVn ^?M in^o who (fands by a Falfehood he ha, once affirmed * ■^'J \- '^" obferves, that I fay, that not withftanding the Ebb made out Eafteriy, y« Tnl ,^^^^^ 'his, he fays, is one of my Probabilities and ,uft as probable as our meeting rFlood from the ^//.»/,. Ocean at P«/«.^ Brid|e , then fay" they tried It about 30 Leagues up f^ager River, andfound It at moft but brackifh half lay up tlut thev there drank it and made Broth of i? J h their l'^^ • ?\'^'V.7="° fi>^'her tlian about D,,r Sound i th-s he thmks is Proof enough of its bdne a f^elh River againft all others ^ho tafted hf Water as „ell .s the Lieutenant's Report and the Matter's Account to the Admiralty, XoWned in his Affidavit does not fay it was freffi there. b« only the higher up the frelher ftill ; and it XX appears hu Affidavit has been p.t into proper Terms A. ^_ to fcrve the Captain's Purpofe, as 1 itiall make fully appear hereafter j but in this Frcfhncfs he is bcfidcs contradiaed by Capt. Moor, D. Gill, Lieutenant, Surgeon and Clerk, and alfo Alexander Morifon^ John Armount and Abrnham Humble, fo that here are many who contradid Guy and Price, yet he fays by jin additional Account from the Lieutenant which he would have believed to be cooked up by me, I think I have got a compleat Viflory, and put it out of all doubt that it is a Sound and no River \ then to avoid this Account, he plays upon W.S.W. and W. N. W. by Compafs, and Variation aUow'd j fo to fhew, as he imagines, the Lieutenant's Igno- rance, or at leaft the Incorreftnefs of his Stile, and to make that a mean CoUufion of mine \ after play- ing thus a little, he then endeavours from Reafon» to fhew this could not be from a W. N. W. Tide, for, he fays, granting hejalteredt he Land very much until he met the Frefh or Waterfai againft him, that the Boat then fell aftern, by coming nearer th| Cataraft (wlvch I apprehend to be as much an Irijb Bull as any Native /n}5b Man ever made) for how could the Boat fall aftern by coming nearer the Catarad, fhe might indeed gain no Ground in Endeavouring to approach it, when its Current equalled her Way, but fhe could not fiill aftern and approach it at the fame Time) and that it flowed 6 Feet as the lieu- tenant fays, thefe are no more than what may be obferved in all Rivers ; when you come to the ^pd of the Flood Stream, the Water fwells feveral Feet, tho' the Frefh Stream runs full againft you ; this may be feen every Tide of Flood ^.t London Bridge, and continues for near Quarter Tide, till the Flood meets the ebbing Stream, and they come to an Horizontal Plain -, it is vifible the fudden Turn- ing of the Tide or Frefh againft him, can be af- cribed to nothing but his getting nearer to the ce fully befides itenant, \iorifon^ [icre arc fays by t which f me, I i piic ic River % V.S.W. Uow'd y s Igno;!- iie, and cr play- Reafon^ ^ Tide, •y much ft him, arer the an Irijh )w could ratarad, vouring er Way^ c at the ic lieu- may be ; to the s feveral ift you; London 'ide, till ey come in Turn- 1 be af- to the (67) g^y^^ifhttp \t might run ^gainft him twice as W ps the Boat went a-hcad, tho' they had a ModBroczf of Wind. Par turiMi Mantes. After this l^^fon^ng he exults greatly, and thinks he ha^ prpv (J /lis poiot^ but, as I before obferv'd, how cap th^ be and tl^e Water be brackidi there > Which he doc« qof fay was frefh by any of his Affidavits, .but pnly frefher than below j his chief WitneflCes Joying only, it was barely brackiih, tho» all I brinff ^Xfx\ It was fait. Now is it fo at London Bridge, or ip ^ny frefh-w^ter River at the End of the ^Jpod 5 and yet in his Log he affirms the Flood ^id not go; up fo far. If it was then brackiOi or fait with a ride of Flood, and the Current came from the yV eftward, muft not that Saltnefs proceed from a Weftern Tide,? So that all his Proof, of Its beuig a frefh-water River, falls to the Ground, and I may return his Affiftant Parturiunt Monies P. 88. he labours very h^rd ftill to make out the Water s being frefli at the upper End oifVazer Strait i and to juftify the Mafter, becaufe he did not fwear to it, infifting upon his written Anfwer to the- Admiralty, that it was ftill frelher, the fur- ther they went upi f)utting his parole Anfwer a- gam upon my Veracity, and thus would excufe his not fwearing to it : But its being fait is fully prov. ed by better Evidence than his CQok'd-up Affida- vits, who fay it was potable, and but barely brack- •,T which is all Evafion. The Lieutenant, Capt. Moor, Surgeon, Clerk, Gill, &c. befides the Ma- Iter, all affirm the Bottle taken up at the higheft jPlace, near the rapid Current, was fait, and 5 fait as the other near Deer Sound ; which they all agree was fait 5 yet he wou'd evade the Lieutenant's! n- Iw«-, and^ pretej^d he meant it was all equally K2 p. 90. (68) P. 90. he endeavours to avoid the Blurider he put upon Nortofiy^f feeing Pf^ager ^\ver from Whalebone Point Southward of the Weft : He wou'd now infinuate, that Norton travell'd 15 Miles over Land to fee it, without any Proof for it ; and then would make him miftake 4 or 5 Points of the Compafs, under pretence that the Lieutenant, in Wager River, miftook 7 Points i and then men- tions his Indian^ Land- Voyage, 'which, I faid, was an Invention of his own ; but which, he fays, would have anfwered no Purpofe, for he wou'd -have taken care to give me no room to cavil with his Piaiion. — Amighty ingenious Anfwer 1 When it is prov'd that great Part of his Anfwcrs are made up of Fictions or Falfities. P. 91. he pafles over a material Objedion, to his not looking into the Openings, between ^/'^/f-. hone Point and Churchil, after he left Churchill going to the Welcome-, alledging his luftruftions bore him out, which, I fliew'd, only related to his pafling Cary*& Swan's Neft from England, but not from Churchih, in one Cafe, it was going out of the Way of the Dlfcovery djpfign'd -, in the other, it was in his Way, and when he found Ice to Northward, did not delay the Voyage i and by his Inftaiftions he was to have called Councils, and aded for the be ft of the Voyage, which he never did where he properly ought, but only wherj it might ferve him to juftify his Negleft , as pafi fingJCtfr>'*s Swan's Neft, outward bound, to avoid making a Tryal that Seafon : This was not worth his anfwering, tho* very materia], faying he had already anfwer'd it. He next juftifies his not leaving Savage Cove, to go up higher with his Ship, to a fine Harbour, near Deer Sound, where there was no Ice, by faying the PafTage to it was all clog'd with Ice, (the* ider he T from e wou'd les over t ; and oints of itenant, :n men- id, was , would 'd -have vith his lien it is e made fcion, to Iburchil^ ruftions ;d to his but not out of e other, I Ice to and by 'ouncils, hich he ly wherj , as paiX to avoid )t worth he had e Cove, larbour. Ice, by ith Ice, (the* (69) (the* It was free, and ail above) and he could noC carry his Ship over Ice as he did his Boats : Is not this a poor, evafive Anfwer ? Did he not brimv his Ships up the River through the Ice in the Narrow, where the rapid Tide causM the Ice to be fomewhat dangeroqs 5 and it was dill freer of Ice* and Jefs rapid, the higher he went; yet he could not go up higher, tho* he could choole going with the Tide, where the River inlarg'd, and the Tide was eafy 5 and fo got through the clofe Ice, whicH was jamm'd together in the Narrows below • r.nd this he only anfwers by begging the.Queftion, that K was going up a frefh- water River againft an P. 92. he allows the Man, whom the Lieute- nant would have, him rake away, was John Butter i but he obey'd the Admiralty's Orderc in not tak- ing him 5 and he does not know by what Autho-. r'ty the Lieutenant would have taken him: His Orders from them were not to (difturb or mo- left their Ships or Sloops ; what was that to taking a proper Linguift or Pilot ; when it ap- pears he was not fo material to the Company? Since he was laft Year in Efigiafid, and fince he coold be fparcd to ccme Home in one of their own Ships, it was no Prejudice to them, if he had come Home on board the Furnace ; and with a Sneer, he fays, he did not want him, fince he had fo goo4 an Interpreter as the Surgeon, who, fuch as he was, was threatned by him to be crop'd, if he endeavour'd to know their Language, or get any Information from thefe Indiam who were on board him. P. 93. he avoids anfwering to my Charge againfl: him, about the Rapidity of the Tide in 63°. 20', by faying the Lieutenant allows in his Journal^ • July the 5th, taat it ran but 2 Knots. He forgets that ( 70 ) that ^l Joiirnals in the Fmiiiue wem B?^r^ P^ his own, ^s he had agreed wi^ thj? Q%(?rs ^h^ Lis would ferv^, that they might all ag^ee as it; wa$ th9P. P. 94. he begins to juftify himfelf from tfte gc* neral Charge of laying down falfe Char|tSj Straits, Currents, ^e. and fays, as to his Chart? being true, I allow it in^. 70. of myQljarto Romance. Whicj^ I have already laid, orily relates to the Bay an4 Straits, and not to the new Difcovery. He pejct fays, as to his frozen Strair, he will prove it tip be no Fiaion : We (hall find this Proof hereafter, but here he ai^irm? it was 105 Fathom deep at the jEotranoe, and charges me with pifingenuity, jEor beginning my Log, 4wfi ^^^> inftead of 12 at Night the yth, when the Sound'ngs wiere 105 Fathom. But were chey not feme Piftance fron^ km fiiozen Strait s ft^nding toward it from ^£pulfe Bay ; gnd as they approa^hM it, did it not grow Shallower, even to 55? What Advantage to hit^ thai; it was deeper at fome Diftance froni hi^ iStrait, than when near it? Had I begun there,, it would have rather made agai^ft him, and have ^•WB lit to ^ no Strait capable to ferve him. His Anfwer to the Charge about the In4iam i? not fetisfaQ:ory, nor is Quf^ Afiidavit a /Efficient Proof againft very fufReient pvidence 5 and Capt. Moor, his Friend, informed me that he prefs'd him CO bring them Home, as they 'wifti'd for it, and cxpe£led jt \ and when he anlwered that it ^ould be an Expence to him, he told him it fhould nor, for he would take xktm with Wm fo Tork/hir^y and tep them ^here, without any Charge to him, un- til the Company's Ships returned, when they might be i^sa. back; but this he would not romply with. Gi(V, in his Affidavit about the Indians, fwearstoo giiich} he iwears they went voluntarily aboard th6 Boat, and fecni'd highly pleafed, contrary ro ail other Evidence. The Lieutenant, Capt. Moor, Sur- gcoh and Gicrk %, cxprefly, the contrary. fVilfon fays, and Cooper fwears, that oncof themwasunwil* Jing; Towns fwears in the very Words of Q<;>, tho' one was taken the 30th of i%- 1743. and the other the 26th oi September, fo that thelaft Paragraph was a Copy of the former, or penn*d by the ^me Hand i which gives great caufe of Sufpiciori againll Capt. Mddleton, as if thefe Affidavits were put into Form by him, or by feme Perfon employed by him> which I fhall here infert. See p. 143 of his Defence, and p. 32. of his Appendix, in his Anfwer. *•" A Paragraph in Towns' s Affidavit, taken the aoch ofMjjf, 1743. b^ioxtArth. Wroth. \^ -"^ And this Deponent further maketh Oath, 7^/ the two Northern Indians, were fo far from being forced into a leafy Boat againft their mils, that they went voluntarily into a good tight Boat, which this Depdnent faw well caulked and put in order but two Days [before -^ and feem*d highly pleafed at their Departure, as well they might ; for they had thore Arms, Ammunition, and Goods given them, than they could have traded ih feven Tears, Thomas Towifs. The Paragraph in G«ys Affidavit, taken the 26th . of Sept. 1743, before J. Pnulfon, And this Deponent further maketh Oath, That the two Northern Indians were fo far from being forced into a leaky Boat againfl their IVill, that they went voluntarily into a good tight Boat, which this beponent faw ( 70 faw well caulked two Days before, and feem*d highly f leafed at their iDeparture, as well they might, for ^hey had more Arms, Ammunition, and Goods given them^ 'than they could have traded in feven Tears, Richard G\jy, Gay farther fwears, That he was two Nights afhore ion Marble Ifland with thofe Indians, and faw them work the Boat with Sails and O.^rs, and defign'd to break up their Boat when they got to the Main, and make Sledges. Now I Ihall ihew from the Jour- nals, that he could not be two Nights afhore with 'thefe [ndi4ns, and fee them manage the Boat with Sails and Oars ; and if this be proved falfe, his whole Affidavit ftands for nothing, and plainly Ihews 'twas calculated to ferve the Captain's Ends of fmpofing upon him, and, by him, upon the Publick. It appears by Log and Journals, that the Lieut, was ordered aihore with the two Indians, Aug. 13th at 3 in the Morning, that he returned the 14th at > a. m. with the Indians, having been two Hours only aihore ; at 5 in the Morning, he fent the Boat again afliore, and with her the Tender's Boat, on board of which was Mr. Guy, he being Qiiarter- Mafter of the Difcovery -, but the Indians did not go aihore, by the Journals, and the Boat returned at 4 in the Afternoon ; at 5, the fame Day, the Boat went aihore again for Water without the Indians, and returned the 15th at 2 in the Morning; at 4 ihe was fent aihore again for the laft Time, and the two Northern Indians with the fmali Boat -, at 4 that Afternoon they weighed, and the Boat returned at / at Night, and they then bore away for Eng- land. How then, fince this is the Fa6l, could Guy be aihore two Nights with the Indians^ and fee them I manage ( 73 ) fhtv S^'"'' '**! 'i"" "' 3 in the Morning.and .kyfi.J«i«_; m. he Evening the 15th for E«g. /afi tMJmans went oniy aihore the iirft Day. When they kiU'd feme Deer.and a white ^ir. and ,.rh"°i^°,?*°''! '§"*" """' 4 '" *e Morning the J^th. the Day they fail'd, and G^^ in the Tender's Boar, went only aihore at 5 in the Morning tlie wth "th.^"'" 'a"? ^i'''' ^^ ^ '^° Nights alliore To rh- ^A*""^ '^ ""^"^ ""^"^S^ their Boat ? Is rinHk-^'"°f?"°"*" ''^f«°'-'= to Things beyond his Knowledge, to rerve feme End? what 4lnd that was the Reader may judge. To prove nf ?i' "iv" f '''1«"'^= « Mr. I/ham, late Governour ?nf£^t^ "'^' "" " ^"'^"'^ '° 'he Company, is a fofpeaed Ev.dence, and would make the moft for nn 1V? ^"^^'"»> that he poffibly could, to avoid any Management betwixt them appearing to their Pijjudice: All he fays about it isf One" Northern Manmmn'd but could give no Accon,n of , " other faying, he did not go afhore with him ; by which I imagine he kill'd lis Confort. He coi°d give no Account of any River. &c. going direffly m-land as foon as afliore. '' wfi"h^f,f ■' *" u' '°"''^ ^'y' '" "' °bferve what Weight It has, or how much to be depended upon. He ih^s not any Probability that this was one of rhfnff /"/"'."'■'^ " ^'^^' M^"''. from any thing here faid ; here is not a Circumftance to in^ duce any to believe it was the feme ; he denies any other was put afliore ; as to his killing his Friend, when he had more G .', than either knew what to Rewl' \ ?;''" ^'"^ ''""'^ ''= l"" his Friend, Kcation and Countiyman ? was he not ufeful to affift liira to carry his Goods, fuch a Quantity as they ^ had. IM.13.' «ji'^ (>4) had, and to defend him againft the EJkimaux, who lived upon a long Traft of that Coaft ; is it not known that their Love to their own Tribe is intenfe, tho* they are fometimes cruel to their Enemies? Is not this then probably a cook'd up Account to iave Middleton\ Character, or fome other Perfon, and not either of thofc who went with Middleton ? and this poor, lame Letter is all he can pick up to juftify himfelf. * But without obferving farther upon this Para- graph about the Indians^ I (hall remark farther Upon Guy's glaring Affidavit, and obferve whether he has not fworn to Things above and beyond his Knowledge, which he could not know but took upon truft, depending upon the Report of others, whe- ther of Capt. MiddieiGn\ or not, i leave to the Reader to judge. He in one Vhct fwears, that the Flood came from the Eaftward, near the fuppofed frozen Strait ? Now he was on board the Bifcovery^ and none on board the Difeovery try*d the Tide from the Time they left fFager River, until they got to Marble Ifland, having never fpoke with any on board the Fttrnace^ untit they figned the Council faid to be held at Cape Frigid, v/hen they water'd at Marble Ifland j and then Capt. Middleton informed Capt. Moor, that it flbw'd at Cape Frigid the 8th of Augujt, at ii at NJf^ht. He next fwears, that he tried the Current at die low Beach, and it ran 3 or 4 Knots •, this alfo he could not know, for noTryal was made on board • * Since this Letter he has, in his Forgery deteBed, produced a fecond Letter from Ijham^ wherein he has brought the fccond Indian to life, and wlthoi^t any farther Proof has brought them both hift Summer down to Churchil.> How inconMent are thefe Proofs when cakulaied to ferve a particular Purpofe ! that upon feeing Cape Hope he was overioy'd i,I hopesofaPairage, and order'd both Shim^C^m betw^n^h, •l''""S ,^f^" n° Meflageor Intercourfe reading his Affidavit to him, and enquiring how he could fwear to fuch Fa& , he faid.lhe CapThad been kind to hinj in learning him fomeTuies of Navigation, and told him, when he read the Af- fidavit to him, he was only to fwear to the bed of his Knowledge. He alfo farther owned to Caot Moor, That when he was fartheft Weft, near the R'pling or Current beyond the Weft-Bluff that what was upon the Starboard Side was all Mand, that when they went ir. between thefe Manrf and wnat they apprehended to be the Main toLarboard tll^ v^"l^'^'!.'^ ^^^ Communication with the jRipling they faw 3 Miles above where the th°y fj^therr '^iV^ >u°f ">^ "^-"'^i" they law the Channel beyond the Ripling, which the Captain would have to be a great WalS whjch ran away S W. the Channd was as wide ^ It was between Deer Sound and Savage Sound which was frotn 8 to ,0 Leagues , yecfn hisTifil M^m-land and that it was a Water-fall from an a Ph lofopher upon it So that I leave it to the Reader, whether this pompous Affidavit, when i is properly confidered, is not entirely cook'd up t" fodtgt^:^'^''^' "' """ J"'^^'-' ^'° '<^^'<' ■' "P aJI'^^^' '" '^"'"^'■'^'"•'y Charge of his playing a double Game, he is at great paias" to clear himftlf (76) of that Charge to the Company, and charges me, as he owns, with great Afperity, as a Man of nei- ther Honour or Probity, in publilhing his Letters againft the Company : As to this Attack, I have already given very good Reafons for my publilhing them in my own Defence, when he attacked me by publilhing mine ; nor could it affeft him now, after he had quitted their Service, unlcfs he plaid a dou- ble Game, and, by being detefted, had forfeited the Claim he had upon them for his Service in con- cealing the Paffage : And therefore I (hall fay no more upon all the Afperity with which he would load my Chardfter; but that if it appears upon the next Tryal, which he oppofes with all his Might, ' that he has done Jullice to the Publick, and that all the Evidence I have produced is falfe, then he, as well as the Publick, may have reafon to blame me, even though my Intention was good ; but if upon Trial ic be found, that there is a good and cafy Paffage, and that he avoided it, and has plaid this double Game, as well as falfify'd Fads, then all the Odium will lie upon him, and my Charader be fufficientlyjuftified i and without going any farther into this Altercation here, but only henceforth an- • fwering his material Objedlions and Reafons about the Tides and Straits, I fhall only fay, that as I, and all my Evidence, are defirous and prefTing to have the Fadts brought to a fair Iffue by another Trial, and they are defirous of venturing their Lives, as well as Charafters, upon a fecond Trial, whilft he pufhes all he can to prevent a fecond Attempt, the Publick may judge who is moft afraid of having their dark Doings brought to light -, or what Pur- pofe it would ferve if I brib'd and corrupted Evi- dence to give a falfe Account, to have all my cor- rupt Proceedings brought to light by the next Voyage. - ^ >f n€i- Letters [ have llfhing me by V, after a dou- ted the n con- fay no would 3on the Might, id that len he, > blame but if lod and las plaid then all ader be farther >rth an- s about It as I, fling to another ir Lives, I, whilft Lttempt, f having lat Pur- ted Evi- my cor- :he next I ( 77 ) - I fhaJl therefore pafe over aJl that he has advanced about my corrupting his People, and come to the Point which IS material, and which he has JabourM With all the Force and Knowledge that he and his Friend could inforce, and that is, in relation to his Fides and Currents 5 but as in p, 105. he thinks he hai gainM a foint agiinft me, by my having juftly cnter'd what I found in the great Log, or Wafte-book,as he Ca»s it ; becaufc in the Jaft Para- graph but one it is enter'd— lay to, try'd the Tide Jt came from the Eaftward 3 Knots, as it is alfo en' ter d m his own Log. This Obfervation was made at 8 at Night, when no doubt the Captain made the 1 rial, confequently the Entry was made, he being upon Deck ; fo that, as in all other Inftances of the Tides, It was fetdown by the Captain's Direftion and confequently, if he intended to impofehis Flood Tide, as coming from the Eaftward, upon the Pub- Jick, which IS what is in Difpute betwixt us ; he took care, at all times, to enter the Tides and Currents to anfwer his Purpofe, and therefore the Entry in the great Log muft be conformable to the reft 3nd It appears plainly, that his Officers either de! pended upon his Judgment in the Entry of the Currents and Tides, or complyed with him, that u^ ""J^iTi ^^"^ '"^ °PP^^^ ^'"^ ' " alfo appears that a Weft Moon made High-water there, and it being about Quarter Moon the li'th, it flowed to about 12 and if it flowed half Tide, the Current of H-bb would run above two Hours, fo that it was probably the Ebb Current run at that time ; for h is known that the Ebb Current runs in the Offino^ when It flows upon the Shore 5 fo that this Entry Concludes nothing in his Favour. In next Paragraph, he fays, I aft unfairly by putting down what he mentions from Keify, that a W. S. W. Moon made High-water at fThale Cove, »nd takes no Notice of what he mpnf.nno ;« /:«o sear ( 78 ) near Brook Cobhanty that the Tide came from tlie N. E. I think I have not a(5led difingenuoufly in that*, what I wanted to prove from Keljy\ as well as his own Kno.vitdge, was that a W. S. W. Moon made High- Water at fVbale Cove, and as he allows that a Weft Moon made High-water at Brook Cob^ bam, and Wager River, that therefore the Flood could not come from Cape Frigid, and fo down the Welcome to Whale Cove; the Tide being earlyer there, than in Wager River, and his new Strait ; fo that this being a known and allowed FafV, Keljy'i Flood from the N. E. could not be true ; in the firft Cafe, repeated Experiments, in many Voyages, had proved it ; in the other, Kelfy made only curfory Obfervations at Sea, and fo he might iTiiftake, or do it defignedly, as he was in the Company's vSecret. — He farther faySj from Scroggs^ that being fet on the Eaft Coaft, the Tide came from the Northward, and not from the Weft, as I alledge : this could not be fo ; he owns from his Frozen Strait to Whalebone Point and Brook Cob- ham, the Courfe is S. W. fo that his N. E. Tide could never force Scroggs upon the Eaft Coaft, it would only drive him towards Brook Cobham, the way he alledges the Flood runs, but if the Flood come thro' broken Lands from the Weftward, it would naturally drive him to the Eaftward or N. E. At laft I have got to p. io6, which is the only Part material to the Difcovery, except his Attempt to make Wager a River inftead of a Strait, this be- ing the Place which he has referved to prove his Frozen Strait, and Tide of Flood coming through It from N. E. and herein he has colleded all his Force and Knowledge of Tides, which his Friend and he have pompoufly fet forth, wherein he is to fhew my Ignorance of the Tides. Upon his fuperior Knowledge as well as his Integrity about the Fads, depends depends the whole Aflai ( 19 ) Account f the Paflige } for \i his ■ whirl, ,k- t 1. '^' *"'' Frozen Strait thro" which they pafs, be true, then my great Deoendan« "pona Paffage from thofe Tide, is^at an E^d f Tnl rny Ignorance of Tides, &c. mult be expofed Z. Imagination of the Reader to the Heiahth fo ad! mire his Knowledge of the Tides anl to d pend fuch Evidence ,s l,e has brought in aid of it ; as this ,s really what he would have to be Ex- TlTVr- J "'f ' J°i" ITue with him. fid If I done ffiew the Account of his large Frozen Strait falfe, and his Tide of Flood coming fromft trr^- ^i '"'' 'l^Knowledge of the IheoT of of t to'hi °Th"'^ '^P""''''' *"'' ^'' Application .h.n' T /I Jn ^"'"' "T'^'y *° f ^"^ and Reafon. then I ftall give up the Caufe, and own his C perior Knowledge, Judgment and Inte-^ritv. and Juperior Knowledge ,n his own Trade; and Wthe whole depends upon thisPoinr, I leave the Iffue to the Judgment of the impartial Reader who ftall give ^mfelf the Trouble trexamL into the Nature of Tides and Currents, and the Place" referred to in this Debate. He ulhers this in, with faying, I have mentioned fn Jh r" "" ',f V*"'" "^f'^^^" P'^c^'. and there- fore he referves al for this general Reply, wherein he will n,ake it evident, I have wrote upon a Sub- ill 1°" ' ""derftand, referring to his Quotations ^pon my Remarks, to ihew my DiGnge^iity and Ignorance m relation to Tides, &c ,K,l"i,^" ^- °^ '^5' '^"''""'■' *>= ftys. I charge him. that his Frozen Strait and Tide was falfe. and cal* culated to impofe upon the Publick, and there I infijiuated IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) k A {./ ^.<^V A y. ^ V/ ^ 1.0 I.I ^IM IIIII2.5 S6 Wut 1.8 1.25 1.4 111.6 == =5 iiiii^ ^ ^ — 6" ► '^ V) / c*^^ - 0% >;> V /^ v^ c^ •V V Photographic Sciences Corporation \ ^ t iV 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4; 03 ^4 ( 8o ) 'afinuated from Foit^ that the Tide; w^ ^nt at tarf% Swan's Neft ; he fays m anfwcr tQ thjs, that / Kow a!l who confider the Ticks, know, that in aU Bays, or In- draughts oppofed to the Courfe of tlip Tide, as in Brijivl Channel, near the Soam in Pimrdy^ &c. that there the Tide rifes to a great Heighth, and this is parallel Inftance ; but asC^r/s Swan's Nefl: was not in the direft Courfe, but where the Tide was expanded upon entring the Bay, there the Tide was fpent. But if he had any Doubt of its being true, was it not his Duty to have try'd the Tide there ? Both going out and in his Return he pafs'd near iti ( 5' ) It i in g^ing out he caH'd his firft Council near tJrn T '^\^J^. '^ ''y the Tide; in his Keturn , he pretended he could not fetch ir, tho' ^a?u^^' \*ving good Weather, but would nor, y^ttifi, who fai 'd North of Cape Comforl, near his pretended Strait found it there ftTaUo:. Water foiall Tides, and much dirty Ice, and this to Northward of Se^-Hor/e Point ; fo that he can build nothing ujwntftis Quotation, to fhcw that the Tides Lu'^tI?''^'' Ned could raife fuch high Tides without iabounng his frozen Strait, muft allow thofe great i Ides to come from a Weftern Ocean, fince the^ did not come from Hudfin's Strait. From this he comes to tha main Point of his retracing, which he owns he faid by a Miftake, that It was Low WaRr inftead of High Water and this he would prove was only a Miftake, ' by (hewing th^t by the Council fign'd the 8th of ^uM, it was agreed that a W. by S. Moon made High-watcr which, that Morning, was between 7 a^d 8 o'clock. He fays, from this Proof, it fhews L^^V^"^ ^^^''^ *' ^^''^^^^ a"d even for that poor Miftake gave my Friend the honourable Nam. or a 5py : He then anfwers, as to the Way he ipent his Time, from half aji Hour after 4, to 8 or g " o Clock, when he returned on board. But to make it confiftent, and get back to the Shore, af- ter travelling near 30 Miles, from 11 to half an Hour after 4, he fays that they walk'd, or rather ran, from Hill to Hill, for the firft two Hours: we can eafily judge how a Seaman at his Years, not ufcd to walking much in Boots, could run near 2 Hours up and down fteep Hills, but this is to make out his going fo far in fo httle Time; but to make It more probable, he nowretradts the Di- Itanee fct down, and fays, they could only guefs at M the ( 82 ) the Diftance, but were certain of the Time by a good Watch he had, which ho body elfe had who was afhpre : This, fo material a Point, muil be taken upon his Veracity alone, the Clerk affirming it was 7 when he returned. He fays, he then aiked whe- ther it was d|bing or flowing, and did not afk be- fore it was Eow- water, as the Clerk alledges, which way the Flood ran, and make that Blunder. Since the Boatmen had been afhore about 8 Hours, they were there a Part of two Tides, and heJmight very properly afk how the Flood ran. The Men telling him that the Tide had flow'd 4 Feet, is nothing to his Purpofc, for that depends upon the Time he got to the Shore ; as to his way of fpending his Time in the Interim, it may be plaufible, but yet not true i and concludes nothing, but that he fays, it was fo, without farther Proof, and therefore is not to be anfWcred, but by denying the Fa. 1 10] fays, tho' they try'd thf Tideiiahiandfed Times, 'tis polJible he did oot fet them down o^pe, . Whether t^i« k^ true or not I flaan't determine, fest (hall examine his Tide by his pwi? Log, and purple Ai^count ? r So, to prove his Tide, he takes it up from a Piace where he couJd not bf piiftajken^ having Jbeen thr«e Wfeks to (85) (0 make Obfervations, and that is fFager-KWcr^ where he couJd not miftake, that a Weft-Moou made High- Water: In thislihal] foUow him, and obfcrve upon his Proof of his Tide. Wednefday Augufi 4th, at Six at Night, he wai a-J)reaft of the Joweft Wand, near the River'* Mouth ; the Tide had feJiea a Foot, a Day and a half before Full-Moon; and as a Weft^Moop made fjigh- Water there, it was High- Water about Five that Evening, at One, A, M, He allcdges the FJood was try»d, and came from E. and E. by J;. Now tis plain this he calls Flood was the Ebb Current, near Low- Water ; for he try'd the Current ^am between Vive, and Si^, when it was ilrong l^Jood, and had above four Feet to flow at Jcaft! when he could know it half a Mile from Shore ; and It appears itflow'd till after Nine that Morning, near the Mid-Strait, which was 13 Leagues wide. Friday the 6th, aceording to his own Account, bcr twixt Five and Six in the Morning (which he calls Hburfday 5th, as he ends his Day at 12 at Noon) half a Mile from the Low-Beach, they had 25 Fa- thom, and a ftrong Tide of Flood from E. by N. l^ Compafe in thofe Narrows; he couW fee it had 3 or 4 Feet to flow, and that it would be High-. Water about feven o'Ciock. I muft here obfci^c. that tho' he won't allow the Lieutenant, who went much nearer the Shore after Two riiat Day in the Soat, to know what it had ebb'd on Shore ; yet here. Jt half a Mik's Diftance, he could find it' had 3 or 4 Feet to flow from the Shijp, and fixes High- Water %l ^'?!2f^\ ^'^^' ^ ^ a^^ows it was a ftrong: CA ^'/'®^^ ^^^ S«» '^^ ^ay be reafonably fu|K pofed, havHig near four Feet to flow, that it flowed longer: And as it is confirmed that the THfitmn was kept a-ftero from Nine to Three in the After* noon that Day, by a ftrong Tide from N. E. it is a ftrong (86 ) fferbng Prcfiimption that the Tide flow'd till Nine ; which confirms that it was High- Water at Cape Frigid the 8th, at 1 1 at Night, being two Days and a half later. But even by his own Account, that it flow*d that Morning till 7, it would then be an Hour later than at ^flftfr-River, it being then Full-Moon, and flow'd at ^^^^-River at Six that Morning. Docs not that prove that his Flood did not go from thence to ^« hewasaftore thfre. terminate Terms. I need fcarce obferve his ftrain- '"8 »" 'hat .s faid here to his ownPurpofe for l^Pot'/:i w'' T^'*' '° ^ carried^round rte low Point to SW. he fays, they atteft they were carried round it. and below would infnuate Ihi^ were not within four Miles of it whei Xr f^ they faw by the Tide it had fallen "J;^:" %^f. pears the Ship was not above four Miles from "t tar Journal, when the Boat went off. Arid having thi^ ftra^n'd to make the whole a blundering aS Ufe of my Reafon. I would not have let fuch^ Blunders appear, and let my Wimeffes in one Place oontradia what they affert in another. In Anfwer to this I ftall only inform him that I made up no Forms of Affidavits for my Witneffi to fwear, or drew Papers for them to itttft I did not. to make an Appearance of a good Cauie feleft what made for me, and ftifle theTft I ;ant^ only to have the Truth appear, out of he crfufrd ttrfr2'ttr'"p''ir^ ''' Vindica^o^rS took from thefe Evidences, who appeared to tell ■ what ( 8?) \k\hat they knew of the Voyage, their Acceunt in tTicir o\vn Words, without alrtring a Syllable, let it appear to be in favour of my Opinion, or not i and did not want to cook up their Anfwers to fcrve my Purpofe ; and therefore I think his Charge againft me here makeg nothing againft my In- ntcgrityi or Ihews that I wanted to guild over or alter Fads to impofe upon the Publick. Ijet the Reader look into the Affidavits of Guy and Towns^ in thofe Paragraphs of each relating to the Indians^ and fee if thefe were not cook'd up by the fame Hand, and ptobably they may guefs whofe Hand that was. Having finifh'd this great Point of his frozen Straits, and Tide from thence, 1 Ihall now confider his grand Attack againd mc, about my Ignorance of the Theory of Tides in general, and the Appli- cation of that to particular Tides. This he introduces thusj P. 113. «* I muft here quote Mr. Doh^s learn'd Paragraph, p. 38. as I defign to be particular in my Anfwer, his Word* •* are as follows ; ** After ftruggiing very hard for his Tide at feven, and finding it wont do, he fays, fFkat would it avait me if be granted it to me ? and fo wants to raife Scruples, and m?ike DifHculties about Tkles in other Places. I fay. It will prove a great deal, ^c, — Sec the Paragraph. Then he anfwers, *' Mr. Bobbs in this Paragraph has taken great Pains to convince the World he is but a Smatterer wiih regard to the Tides. But as he has this Pifcovery fo much at Heart for the Good of the Publick, and for that laudable Reafon may be induced to undertake it himfelf, that I may throw in my Mite towards the procuring this greaC Advantage tn my Coiuitry, I (hall here endeavour to enlarge his Underftanding." 2 Thus cc cc Tl] Knov imart able I and I Child Put le be Jn theT He (ays, t Imp^J would Time ; Tide, one H( being 1 phat I hi is error 1 ever j tbrougl 140 Lc ic in hi aiidyet iflg fro was no was 3 I I muft < calling i alledge i5H.i2 progrefl any Wii •the Tid dian ; x upon th( ( 89 ) Thus by Inland hi^ Afliflant's great andfupcrior Knowledge i.n this grand Theory of the Tides over my poor fmattermg Knowledge, he begins very fmardy and wittdy with a Sneer, to treat my laud^ able Dclign of finding a Paffage, as a grand Joke. ?'K M?y u^l'^''^"^'"^ '*" '' ^'"oughout, as of a i.h»IU s. by Jfarmng me to box the Compafs, Cs?r. ^ut let not him that puts on the Armour boaft like h^m ^hat takes it off; and the impartial Reader Ihall ^L^T'^T''"^'^''^^PP''^^ '^' Theory of the Tides with moft Reafon and Truth, they or I. rtc then, as if it was a great Difcovery to me. fays, that the natural Run of the Tide, Free from Imp^Jiments IS 6 Hours, 12 Min. otherwife it wpuld be High-watcr always at the fame Place and Time 5 every Hour of Time differs 2 Minutes of 1 ide^ Ihat is to fay, in 30 Hours of Time it differs one Hour of Tide, and makes it one Hour later in .uJl^uT ?' H'^-w^^cr J whence it is evident, phat the Notion of a natural Tide's running 6 Hours 4S erroneous ? — Who fays it is otherwife ? did through Hud/on's Strait it was 5 Points in flowing 140 Leagues, as by his Journal, or 130 as he cal§ It m his Defence, viz. from E.S.E. to S.bvE. and yet he would allow it to be but one Point flow- V)g from thence to ^fcj, 250 Uagues, which was not 48 Minutes in Time, tho» th^ other was 3 Hours, 48 Minutes; or if to be very corredt. I mull call itj Hours 53 Min. nearly ; oris it from calling It 7 Points 12 Hours 48 Min. that hefhould ^Uedge I allow but 6 Hours to a Tide, inft^ad of ' H. 1 2 M. having not here taken notice of theMoon's progreffi v^e Motion in her Orbit. I don't think th^re \s T^T'T^'f in knowing that the Moon governs •the Tide by her Attraaion, as (he tranfitseach Meri- dian i that as fte in her periodical Courfe gains upon the Sun's Courfe 48 Min. each diuriial Revo- ^ lution. i iiii \\ ■ ( 90 ) 'ution, that (he mud be of courfe 48 Min. later in pafTing our Meridian, and conlcquently the Tide be fo much the later •, and therefore I have gained no more than I knew before, by this great Com- munication of this Piece of his fuperior Knowledge to me. His next Piece of fuperior Knowledge, which in his Goodncfs he is plealed to communicate, is, I own, beyond my Depth of Knowledge, in the Theory as well as experimental Knowledge of the Tides, which, if I don't Ihew to be contrary to Ob- fervations, Fadls, and Reafon, I Ihall fubmit to his fuperior Genius and Knowledge, and own my being a Smatterer in Tides, and as much a Child as he thinks me, and fliall go to him to learn to box and quarter the Compafs. 1 fhall therefore give this Piece uf.bis Goodnefs and Learning in his own Words, at large, as here fet down in p. 114. and farther explained in p. 192, of his Amfwer. " Next I wil 1 inform him, that fuppofing a South '* Moon makes High-warer at any two Places -, for ** Example, at the Nore and Pentland Firth, (the " Channel which parts Scotland from the Iflands " o^ Orkney) they being pretty near the fame Me- ** ridian, for the Nore is but 4°. of Long, to the Ealiward of Bungsby-Head, which makes one Side of the Firtb ; now on fuch a Suppofition, I would, I fay, inform that Gentleman, that a ** South Moon makes High-water on Full and ** Change Days in both Places, allowing onjy for «* the Time which the 4". Longitude' gives, viz. " 16 Minutes; confequently itwiil be' High-water " at the Nore 1 6 Min. fooner than at Pentland Firtb, To continue my Inftrudlions, as I find he has made a Blunder of 16 Points of the Compafs, I « would afk Mr. Dc^^j, what Moon made High- " water 4 Days after the Full or Change, where it C( ai J^iggs l^v ^t the^Entrancc of the ,B^y„,at which Placey he fays,, it flow^atthe f^nup linpe, according to his Pfinciplcs^ not by a, progrefl|ve Impulfe,^ as through Hmfon!^Stv^t^ and around, tnglfiftd^ but by ^he Attrac^tion pf the Mpon, as ijn the Ocean, where at ail Diftances, upoii the. fame Meridian, it katth^farpe time High-,wateri and heie he fayi it is only 45 Mtn. iyr qim? Point c^iflTer^nce, occa- iioned by Cape piggs being more Eafterly than Many% whereas I, lay, it is occafionecl by the prc^- greffivc Motion of the Ocean Tidc/.from Refiiit /!«« through the Straits^ and fo aqwn the Bay, foppofing no Faflage from the Weftern Qc^an j anji that as it flows from the E.S. E. to S. byE. tjirp* th* Strait to Cape Diggs, in 3 Hxiurs 45^ Min. fo from u and a Quarter before Noon when it is High^wat^r at Cape Diggs, that Impulfe, or Tide, doesijot gQ from thence in 45 Min, ^o Albany^ fo astQ ijc High- water at 12 that Noon, but that it 0OWS South, fome £ew |^eague& South warc^ of Cape J)iggs, perhaps in 6i*'» and thence goingdawn the Bay, it Hows aloi^ the Coalt progremvely S. S. W. S.W. (97) fh5- ^'^^'^ ^^^' "^^^ ^y " ^^ Night, thitprogr^ivc Tide midce« High^watcr by a North Moon U Mmiy, in like manner as it does from Pntknd Fittb to the Nire, which runs about 200 W^csm much ih& Utat Time. Now thi^ is 2!!^5. P*"^^^ *? ^^'^fo "P>n hiB own Frinci- WJ rift^^ ^*^^ ^ ^'^^ 7"' niore Eaftcrly Q r/^^' aaoiding t6 him, there ihouJd be but JJ'/J- "iJ^ead of 45, which he fayi there is , and as iWr^ River, where aS,E. and N. W. Moon intiQwHij;h.watcr,i8 not above 15*, more Wefterly nTj^ P^^'' ^^^ * S°"'^ *»^*f Weft Moon iftould,^ his FtincipJcs, make High- water. Now ^Irlr ai^^ ourOceatt makes both Tides, at iVe^cn and Mu?^, (and 'tis pliin the Moon can'c " Ir*^?^^^ *" ^^^ ^y* "'^'"C than in the Baitick or m^trraneim) then how could the South Moon m 45 Min. make High^water at Mtm, and yet be to lortg as 9 Houn abd three Quarters in making High.water at Pbrc iV5?r<.«, where a N.W. MooS made High^witcr, or ac Cbkr^hit 5 Houn 15 Min. whcreaW.S. W. Moon makes Higb.wQt.'r,cach of *'*^4?. V^" ^^^''S^^arcrCapcZ^;;^^ than Albany. i his IS alfo an Anfwer to what he challenges me to give a Solution to in p. 192. wherein, upon his allcdgin^ m his Letter, that a W. or W. by N. M^ninadc High-water at 63^. 20. and a W. by S. or fi. by N. which is the fame, made High-water at his Frozen Strait, (which I then took for Faft) thac as It was 16 Points in flowing from his Frozen btrait, through which he would have had me be- hcvc that the Tide flowed to the ff^ekme ; as I kt^ew the Current could not be inftantaneous to the othe* Place, and the Moon raifes no fuch Tide in an ir.i ,nd Sea, that it mull have been la Houi^ 14 Min. or t$ Points, in flowing from oiie Place to the ocher^ Now. »t^s%TAtnr, m k;c T^k.»... .. :* Q is (98) is but about 7 Degrers of Longitude from Cape Fri- gid to his Frozen Strait, the Difference of Tide ihould be only 28 Min. not 2 thirds of a Point, fo that his Tide fhould have flow'd down from thence near 100 Leagues in 28 Min.*— and how would that account for his Tide at IVbak-cave at W. S.W, ,which is 45 Min. earlier than his Tide at Cape Fri^ ^/W, tho* it being about lo*. of Longitude farther Weft, it fhould, by his Axiom, be 40 Min. later $ Sq it is plain, that Reafon and Fadls areagainfthis Theory of the Tides, and plainly fhews how inju- diciouHy he endeavoured to make ufe of Sir Ijaac Newton*s Theory of the Tides. And here I fhall beg leave to refer to the Reader, whether he has ihewn any fuperior Knowledge in the Tides, an4 that I am but a poor Smatterer in them, and be obliged to come to School to him to teach me to box and quarter the Compafs. • What he obferves afterwards about the Height of the Tide is not material, for I never made that as a Proof alone, for I know at Headlands near the Ocean, in fome Places, it does not rife above 6 Feet^ and at the Entrance of Rivers it rifes fometimes to 4, 5» 6 or 7 Fathom ; as at Cbefter Bar, in Brifiol River, near the Soam in Picardy, in the Bay oiFumfy^ Bay of Bengal^ Surafy &c.— But this I affirm, that in all Straits entering into a Sea where the Tide ebbs and flows, there are high Tides occafioned by the great Current in and out, and in this Inftance at the JVelcome^ high Tides there can only be ac- counted for by a Communication wijth the Weftern Ocean, fince there is none by his Frozen Strait > for fince Hudfon*s Strait Tide is loft in the Bay, being but 6 Feet at Cjry's Swan's Neft, and not above 4 Feet at the Bottom of the Bay, it is impoflible (6 great a Tide can be raifed at the Welcome^ and ad- joining Coaft, without ic came from anothcrOcean,—' **.» other- (99) . ': otherwife, why fhould there not be as great Tidei at mfon and Albany^ as there, fincc it b more direft to the Tide from Hudfon's Strait, than Wafer Ri-: verand the adjoining Strait. Capt. Middletorty in p. 120. endeavours to contra- dia: Capt. Moor's Evidence, That the Men who tailed the Water faid it was not very fait (Van So^ brick and G«y) The Way he took then to get them to fay, it was not very fait, was thus; After thiiy had rowed fome way off the Shore, he called to thefe Men to tafte the Water and fee if it was Salt, but before he gave them time to tafte, and anfwcr jiim, hedip'd his own Finger in the Water, and faid It was frefh 5 upon this, they gave him no Ani fwer, until he alked them a fecond Time, upon which they anfwcr'd, it was not very Salt, and from this Trial and Anfwer he prevaii'd upon them to fwear, it was brackifli and might be drank. P. 122, he labours hard to prove, that Optairi Mmr had not anfwcred correctly about the Breadth of that Openins betwixt Cape Frigid and the low Beath, which, he fays, was but 3 Miles wide, and that it muft be much wider from his bringing Capd Hope to bear N. N. W. Now Capt. Moor no where fays, that from the Northermoft Point of Cape Fri* gid^ to the low Beach, was but 3 Miles. What ht muft be underftood to have faid was, that the Open- ing within, from the South of the Iflanc^ Eaftward of the Ships as far as he could fee to the low Beach appeared to him to be but 3 Miles wide. He alf j makes a great Matter of a Mifprint, of the Frozert Strait's beating S.W.byW. inftead of S.E.byE. which is plain was mifcopy'd or mifprinted ; but it is plain, from the great Log, that there were two Openings, or Straits, a& he is pleafed to call them i for on the 8th at 12, by it. Cape Hope bore N. bv ii., half ii. 7 or 8 JLeagues 5 low Beach, W. by ^, O2 \ ( KO ) 4 •r I L?«giie5, then the laraeft Opening bore E, zSm&i^. — At 4 Cape Hope bore NThglf E, 3 I^c^gM^, Low Beach S. W. h»lf W. 7 or 8 Mi|c5, the Middle OpenineE. S, E. $ h«i^\m i at 9, Cape /f(7;? himfelf, when taxed with his Affidavit by Capt. Mfrl allbw'd he could not know, whether it was ='"'1 afterward 'fofla;rn°t Affidavit againft Truth, when he knew here w^ fJJ' r'f "" '^^'"^ ''™> "««°n'y. and w thorn fome Inducement; and therefore there^is ftron„ * S^e"Sr"' -Y' ^ r^ "= "mpered wkh if lome Shape, either by Promff« r,f lK:„^n.:_ ■ i-referment. or by Threatsri iilalV te;^^;,"",^ form C "2 ) form fome Judgment upon it, obferve upon the hi- ftorical Part the Captain has afforded, to give fome Light into this Affair, in the Pamphlet he has pub- lifli'd ; and then leave it, with what other Lights I can produce, to the impartial Reader, whether the Captain, or fome other Perfon, has not tamper'd with him to induce him to make an Affidavit fo con- trary to Truth. He fays, on the 2d of November 1 744. he acci- dentally met Mr. George Axx^ his late Gunner, and fuppofed Author of the aforefaid Letter and Draught, and tax*d him with having contradided the Truth of what he had fign'd in Council upon the Voyage, all which Jxx abfolutely denied ; and Axx came af- terwards, the fame Day, to his Lodgings, but miffed of him, and therefore came next Day, the 3d, and gave, after feeing the printed Draught, the following Atteftation. /^Eorge Axx, late Gunner on board the Fur- ^^ nace Sloops Capt, Middleton Commander, is ready and willing to make Oath, that he never fent this Letter, or any of the like Kind, to Mr. Wygate, or to any of the Lords of the Admi^ ralty, neither did he fend a Draught of the frozen Straits as is mentioned in Mr. DobbsV Remarks upon Capt. Middleton'i Defence-, fo that I apprehend, if their Lordjhips had fuch a Letter from Mr, Wygate, it mtift be of his own forg- ing. Nov. 3, 1744. Witnefs JOHN DEWILDE. GEORGE AXX. Now (i'3) Now I muft here obferve, that when Mr. mgaie wrote to Mr. Axx to let him have a Draught of what he obferved when alhore at the frozen Strait ; as -^x was ferther than the Captain and fVygate were, yixx^ as appears by his Letter, did not know his telhng the Truth would any way aflfea the Captain, not knowing that the Captain's Condud was en- quired into, and confequendy had no Inducement to conceal the Truth, but had fome Expedaiion from the Captain, as appears from his Letter, ha- ving fo readily fign'd what the Captain would have nim, in relarion to his account of the frozen Strait at I^rbk Ifland, fome Days after the pretended Council was held ; for he and the Carpenter fign'd it after Capt. MooTy and were npt prefent when the Captain, Lieutenant and Mafter fign'd it, as Captain Moor affirms ; the two lad, the Lieutenant and Mafter, not being afliore, confequently took it upon the Captain's Word, and thofe who were aOiore with him, w.ere not prefent at fuch Council as he pretends he held ; for in the Council held at Cape Frigidy as printed by him in his own Defence, he only mentions himfelf, Capt. Moor, the Lieutenant and Mafter prefent, and no mention of the Carpen- ter or Axx'& being prefent i and yet it is certain that Captain M and then pcrfifted lie had not wrote fuch a Letter, or Draught, and afterwards hoping that his Letter and Draught might have been miflaid, and there- fore not appear againft him ; and that the Captain either might, or had promifed him his Favour, to linfay what he had faid, he prevailed upon him to ^ake the above Atteftation, thinking it would end fo, and no Affidavit of it be required. By the wording of the Atteftation it plainly ap* pears not to be his own, but drawn up for him, by the Captain or his Friend Dewilde ; for it begins with the third Perfon, and concludes in the firft Pcrfon,and they inferted that he was willing to make Oith of what hefigned at their Importunity. Whe- ther any Threats or Promifes were made by any Per- fon at that time to him, to induce him to pin hira- ff If down by this Atteftation, in order to get a fur ture Affidavit from him, is to be left to the Judg- ment of the Reader, after confidering the further Progrefs of this Affair. Upon Capt. Middleton\ producing this Attefta- tion to his Friends, they told him this was not enough, he ought to have got Axx\ Affidavit \ Axx thought himfelf now in the Captain's Favour, by havincr given his Atteftation. — But now he is to be hunted out again to get his Affidavit ; he having gone out of Town, the Lords of the Admiralty are to beap- ply'd tn for an Order to bring him toTown, which, tho' obtained, Axx kept ftill out of the way ; then his commanding Officer was wrote to, but ftill no News of him. Then the Captain fent to his Houfe, and was told, he was gone on board 5 the Lords Order went aboard,and the Return was, he was not to be ( '^5 ) be found ; the Lords then faid, if he (Jxx) could m!m ^^"^^ ^^'^^'^ ^'"^ "^ ^° ^"^"^ ^*p^- • Thus above a Fortnight pafTed i then the Captain goes to his Wife, who had a Letter from yixx ac knowledging the Order, and that he would foon attend him : He then waited fix Days longer, and hearing nothing from him. the Capt. applied again to the Admiralty for a peremptory Command for nis coming to Town, which he procured ; but find- ing that had no Effect, fome Days after, he defired His good Friend DewiUe to make an Affidavit of what had pafled. Does it not from hence plainly ap- pear, that from the 3d. of A^<9i;. to the 26th. when Vewilde made his Affidavit, notwithftanding all the Summons s and peremptory Orders, that Jxx ikulk'd and kept out of the way, for fear of making a falfe Affidavit ? he thought he might get off for what he had already done, and it would reft there; but <-apt. Mtddleton finding that he avoided fwearine. ^as refolv'd to make the moft of it he could, and 10 writes his Book, and gets his Friend Dewilde to iwcar as far as he durft, but palliates it by fwearing, that Axx faid he never wrote to any Lord of the Admiralty, or to Wygate, or to any other Perfon whatever, with Relation to the Voyage, to the pre- judice of ih^ Captain. 'Tis plain Axx did not know what he wrote was to the Prejudice of the Captain, not knowing how the Captain had made his Draught, and therefore what Dewilde fwears may be fo far true, and Axx might then be willing to make Oath, that he did not write in prejudice of the Captain. I muft farther obferve, that fince Capt. MiddUton lays, he always fufpe(aed that the Letter and Draught froni ^x wasforg»d, how came he to aft with fo much WautioH before Dewilde^ as to advife Axx tp 0.2 be be careful what he faid, or figned» as it might ruin him if it was not the Truth j and Dtwilde again repeats, in his Affidavit, that the Captain ad monilh'd the faid Axxy feveral times, to be cautious in what he fign'd or fwore j do thefe Cautions look as if he apprehended it from the Beginning to be a Forgery, or was it to take away the Sufpicion of tampering with him^ when he met him before aloae? which nuift naturally arife, when it appears that j^xx was drawn in to fign an Atteftdtion which was falfc, in JPad. — Is not this extream Caution like warding off a Blow before it is ftruck. However, the Jaft peremptory Command from the Admiralty having brought ^xx to Town, rather than lofe his Bread, he muft go greater Lengths than he firft intended ; if he does not come up to his Atteftation, he muft appear to be a Rogue and bedifmifled? He had attefted he was willing to make Oath, now he muft be kept to it, and fo on the firft of December^ after keeping a Month out of the Way, he is drawn into his extraordinary Affida- vit •, whether any Threats or Promifes, or both, were made ufe of to oblige him to do it, I fhall leave the Reader to judge, when I Ihall farther in- form him, that; within a very few Days after he made this Affidavit, a late Lord of the Admirahy recommended him to be made a Gunner in a larger Ship, which is a Promotion, and much more advan- tageous. I leave the Reader to judge by whofe Pro- curement that Recommendation was made ; but upon its being oblerved at the Board, that Jxx was the Perfon who taxed me with Forgery, the Recom- mendation was dropM, and he is fince gone off to South Carolina in the Aldborough, and fo no Oppor- tunity can be had of tracing out this Myftery of Iniquity. But I muft farther obferve, that I am rrprJlKlu infnrt-nM thaf th^ P-irvf^Irt UnA ^^^r^>,^*A upon ( 117 ) upon dm Affidavit's being made,a Letter of Attorney tor Jxfc to fign, to give him a Power to fue me for the Forgery ; and Captain Middleton told one of my Friends, that he would enter an Adion of 20,000/ Damages againlt me, for if it had not been for my Attack upon his Charafter, he might have had a Kmg»s Ship, and have taken Prizes to his , Share of 20,000/. Value. As this Atteftation and Affidavit o^ George Jxx was publifhed with a View of invalidating his own, and aifo the Tcftimony of thofe who had given Evidence that the Frozen Strait was no fuch Strait, as either to produce fo great a Tide, or to convey Whales under the Ice, and alfo of thofe who af- firm'd, that the Tide flowM towards this imagi- nary Strait, inftead of coming from the South-Ealt- ward through it : In order to invalidate this Evi- dence farther, he has produced another Letter and Affidavit from John Hodgjbn the Carpenter, who was afhore at this pretended Frozen Strait, with a Draught of it to confirm the Captain's Draught, this QtHodgfon's feeming to coincide with that the Captain has publifhed. Therefore, after enquiring into the Nature of this Affidavit, and obferving whether this (as well as Guy\ and Axx'^ Affidavits) be not drefs'd up by another Hand than the Car- penter's, fince the Captain obferves in a Poftfcript, that the Perfon who drew it up made a Miftake in more than one Article ; if ir appears that a material Paragraph of the Affidavit is falle, notwithftanding the Captain's Amendment after it was fworn ; and thaPthe Carpenter fwore to a falfe Fad, notwith- Itanding he lays he had his Journal by him, from whence he took his Draught j i leave it to the Reader tojudge, whether there is not as much Reafon to believe this Draught made to lerve the Captain's Tuni, or made from the Captain's Draught, which he (1.8) he might ha'^^c fcnt to mifguide the Carpenter in making the Draught he fworc to, as to behcvc the Carpenter was miftaken in a material ArticJe, which, Jfhe fays true, muft betaken from his Journal. I therefore refer to his Letter and Affidavit, and fliall only remark upon the falfc Paragraph in it, which if found to be falfe, there can be no Depen- dancc upon the Truth of the other Articles in it, about tlie Tides, it being all wrote to anfwer a Pur- pofc i but as the Captain fays in his N. B, upon it, the Pcrfon who drew up the Affidavit was miftaken; does not this ftiew that the Carpenter did not draw up the Affidavit, but another was to do it for him ; and he not apprehending the Way it fhould have been done, to anfwer the Purpofe, miftook it, and ib the Carpenter did not know whether it was right or wrong, but took it as it was drefs'd up for him ? I fhall not infift upon that Falfity of fttting down South for North Ammca, as it is no way material, and might be a Slip of the Pen ; but furely fincc the Carpenter fays he wrote and fent the Draught from a Copy attefted by the Lieutenant, Mafter and Gunner, entered in his Journal taken at Cape FrigidyV/KKh he had then before him. [See bis Letter. "\ He either had no Journal, or a falfe one, when he fays, as well in his Letter as in his Affidavit, that .after they had been alhore, and found Cape Frigid a joint Land to the low Beach ; that on coming off the Land in a Boat near Sun-fet, when it was almoft' High-water, which drove the Ship away to the Weftward on the Flood, and was like to have haw^l'd them into the Frozen Strait on the Ebb -, that after- wards this Deponent went afhore, which was about Eleven of the Clock the next Morning, the Water being fillen 5 or 6 Feet, ^c. Now this Para- graph is an abfolute Fallhood, for from the Time the Cnptaiii and Carpenter went on board, after they try'd ( 119 ) tryM the Tide at Cape Fripd, no Bo«t went afhore, but they failed away for Brook Cobbam ac Two the next Morning i fo that the Carpenter fworc this Pa- ragraph from a falfc Journal, i/ from any, and why may not his Draught be alio fworn from a falfc Draught ? for if faJfe in one Cafe, what Dependancc of Its being true in th« other. But the Capt has endeavoured to mend this in his Remark, by faying It was a Miftakc, in faying next Morning, for the fame Morning, as appears in the Report the Deponent fign'd on board. Now it is notorious the Carpenter was not at the Boaixl when the Report was figned, which ,s what he calls the Council held at Cape Frmd, for Cape. Moor, the Gunner and Ifland. Bcfidcs the Captain himfeif allows they were not prefent, fee A^. XI. Page ,ii,\n his Defence. L!,"?; '" '5f,.,^°""^'^ it « cnter'd, Prefent, Capt' Middle ton, William Mior, John Rankin, Robert mL fin, but no mention of Gunner, or Carpenter ; but what would the Captain's Amendment here fignify, lU inftead of «,;,/ Morning, he had put in, thefJne Morning ? The Paragraph would then be Nonfen^ and run thus; Coming ofF in the Boat about Sun- fet, afterwards we went alhore the fame Mornin-*^ 'u'r^'ur ^'TS f^"^" 5 or 6 Teet.- So tha all thefe hoblmg Amendments, with his N.B. won't make the Paragraph true. Next Thing to get off this falfe Paragraph is, that It was the Perfon's Miftake who drew the AffiS neither can this be true, unlefs the fame Perfon wrote the Letter to the Captain under Hodgfin\ Name, and fent the Draught ; for the very fame falfe Pa- T'^ i'Ti\^" ^'^^''^'^ ^t^^' ^"d there he f I hw. n ^^^^''J^'l'^^^y him from whence he took his Draught, by his offering to have fenr h\ra a Copy ot It, It he had timej fo that the Copy "of the { IZo) thr Letter and Affidavit muft come from the fame Hand, and was calculated to ferve the Captain*s Purpofe, tho' being ignorant of feme Fads, he could not keep up to his Inftruftions. Therefore after confidering how Jxx has been drawn in, or con- ftrained, to make fo notorious an Affidavit, to fupport an Atteftation he had inconfiderately fign'd againft Fact, after confidering Hodgfon\ hobbling Affidavit and Letter falfe in Faft, tho' attempted to be mended by the Captain after it was fworn ; after confidering the notorious Affidavit of Jobn Guy^ cook'd up in fuch a Manner as hardly to be known by the Man who inconfiderately fwore it, I leave it to the Reader to judge, whether the Capt. in this whole Controverfy, has aded like a fair Ad- verfary, with Defign that Truth (hould be known, or has gone Lengths beyond any Man of Candour and Integrity, in defending himfelf by Subterfuges, Evafions and falfe Teftimony. FINIS. ERRATA. P^OE Sq, line 31. injlead of 7. read 17 Points. Page 68. line i/l. inftead of Cape Frigid, read Brook-Cobham. ( 121 ) This Letter was fent to me after the fore- going Sheets were printed off. To Arthur Dobes, £/^j SIR, THE ungenerous Treatment I have met with from Capt. Middleton, which he himfelf muft be too fenfible of to deny, \r A- • ^^^^^ "''^ ^° ^^y fomething in my own Vindication, which, as vou are anfwering his late Rhapfody of Forgery Detected, I beg you would in- fert in yours. o / The Captain has made fome Remarks upon my Anfwers to the Queries fent to me by the Lords of the Admiralty. In the firft, he is pleafed to fay, that I knew nothing of the Tides in Hudfon'^ Straits, O^W, p. 1 19.) in faying, that in the Entrance the ' 1 ide runs not above three Knots. He affirms, that when clear of Ice, the Tide runs above five Miles an Hour; for the Truth of which he appeals to every able Mariner who has made that Voyage. That he thinks nimfel: an aWe one I don't doubt, therefore to his own Journals I appeal -, but it is hard if after i twice feven Years Experience in that Voyage (moft ^ ot which Time I was with t\{\s great Man) I fliould know nothing of the Tides: Had I been with any one Jefs experienced, one would have imagined the very Time would have been fufficient to have taughtf^ me that, unlefs we all were as he, in his frantic Vif ^^. lions of Knowledge, imagines us, a Parcel of ftupid J-.ogs, and he the only M^n of common Senfe. But It he will allow any to be able Mariners belides him- Ir'rTlir ^^^J^^ft^rs that go the fame Voyage for the Hudfon*^ Bay Company Tof which there are bur tour) may put in a Claim to this Title. Two of toein 1 happened to meet with ^uft after your Re-. R ttmrk ( 122 ) marks came out : I Ihew'd them the Queries that the Lords of the Admiralty had fcnt me, and my An- fvvers, and defired their Opinions ; upon which they declared I had anfwered all the (^eri«s that fell within their Knowledge very juftly, and as much in Capt. Middleton\ Favour as the Nature of theThing would allow. In his Remark upon my Anfwer to Query 7. he fays, How do either of thefc Gentlemenknow what Ice there was to hinder our fearching Inlets or Open- ings ? I do know very well, and fo does Captain^ Middleton^ if his confummate Modefty would let^ him own it, that in the Month of July the Ice is drove from that Coaft to the Eaftward by the great Frcfhes'and ftrong rapid Tides, which are fuppofed to come through the broken Lands, that have hi- therto appeared to be only Iflands. He knows like- wife, that it was the firft Day of July when we failed from Cburcbill-River along the Coaft, and met with no Ice till we got into the Lat. 63®, 20. N. Altho' we kept in fgch a fair Offing from the Land, that we might aflure ourfelves there was no Ice to pre- vent our fearching Inlets : And this is further con- firmed by the Company's Sloop, which goes annual- ly from Churchill to IVhale-cove, and takes it for a common Rule, to keep between the Ice and the Shore in her outward bound Paffage ; and upon her Return fhe is always fure to find the Ice fet far enough to, the Eaftward out of her Way, nay, even out of Sight of Land. • Capt. Middkton again fays, " Mr. Moor^ in An- " fwer to Query nth, fays, the Tide run feven " Knots in PFager-KiwQV^ iov he hove the Log, and the Ship ran by it fix Knots four Fathom, tho* at the fame time Ihe fell aflern : If he does not mean that this was at the entering of WagiT' *' River, he nrevarirafps- and dc*! nnf anrwe*" *"Iie Querv, which is. How many Knots did you find « the « ( 123 ) **; the Tide to run in fFager-Rivcr? If he anfwer- " ed the Queftion made to him, he has been guilry *' of a notorious and propenfed Falfity, as the Log " will (hew that we had not Wind to run above three Knots, and that among Ice, which caufed our traverfing very much, and hindered heaving of the Log. The Tide flow'd at 12 that Night, the 13th of July, and he drove in and out three II fucceflive Tides, being inciofed all the while in Ice ; fo that he had no Opportunity of trying the " Tide in going into ^tfg-2 fhould continue in the River, left People, who (hould afterwards read our Journals, fhould think we had trifled away our Time there ? He fays, that ** I fpoke incoafiderately, when I faid, that there was not Ice fufficient to prevent our going over, without I could fee thirty Miles diftant, tho* no body elfe'can fee Ice from the Maft's Head above 10- or 12 Nliles diftantj excent thev are vaft large ( '27 ) krge Iflands of Ice, and there are no fuch in that River." To this I anfwer, that his own Argument de- ftroys itfelf, for the whole Breadth of JVager River is not above 30 Miles,'and he has juft before pro- duced his two Affidavit Men to (wear, chat they were in the Mid-Channel when they taftcd the Wa- ter (which I deny) but allowing that we were in the Mid-Channel, fure I might have feen very near over, whether there was any Ice to prevent our crof- fing, without feeing fo far as 30 Miles. But tho* I could not fee 30 Miles, Capt. Mddkton could fee four or five and fifty. Oh ! the Blefling of a good Eye, and a quick Invention! For the Frozen Straits through which all his Black Whales, and ftrong, rapid Tides are to come, to fupply the Welcome^ IVager River, ^nd all the other Rivers, B.iys, Open- ings, or Inlets that communicate with the JVelcome^ Capt, MiMefon dikovered the Sth of /iugujiy 1742. when he was afhore it C9,]^e Frigid, Thefe very Fro- zen Straits, he fays, he then faw running away about S. E. for eighteen Leagiies all faft froze, altho* he was not within fome Leagues of them, for he fent his Gunner and Carpenter feveral Miles farther than he went himfelf ; and is it not very hard that he fhould be allowed to fee 18 Leagues^ and will not fufFer me to fee above 10 or 12 Miles at fartheft, tho' I was feveral times upon higher Mountains, to fee over Wager River, than Cape Tr/^/^ afforded for him to command that monftrous Diftance ? Tho* here lam fenfible that he will objed: aguinft what I fay, and, according to his cavilling Way, infift that a Mountain is not a Majl-head. His Remark upon the 13th. is a downright Pre- varication. 1 allow that Gill brought in but two Bottles, but Mr. Lendrick brought in another, and the Capt. delivered it as his Opinion, that the Bottle ox Water was the fakefl'- hefnn* K*. «roo ar^r^^i^M ^c >ts being taken the higheft up. L^^"" (' 128 ) In Confirmation of my Anfwer to the 15th C ^e- ry, I do aver, that there is a Channel between Cape Frigid and the Low-Beach, which indeed Captain Middkton might not fee, becaufc he was afhore when the Tide fet us into it, for we were fo near driving through, that we made all ready to anchor, having little Wind; and inftead of being 27 Miles diftant, we were within lefs than a Mile of the Low-Beach, thCii the Point bore W. N. W. Diftant about 8 or 9 Miles. As to the next, I reply, that there was not fo ftronga Tide as in Wager River ; for as we were fet into that Channel, and within a Mile of the Shore, we fliould undoubtedly have felt it. To the 17th, I appeal to the whole Company of both Ships, whether we were frequently near enough that Shore to difccrn Iflands from Main Land j and as to fparing myfelf Trouble, had I done fo, I lliould only have followed Capt. Middkton\ Exam- ple, who pays me a Complement in faying, I try'd the Tides at D^^r Sound, for I am certain 'tis more than he did, to any Exadnefs. I have no future Views of a Command, neither ihall my Complaifance to any Man be gratify'd at ^hc Expence of Truth, which I have more Regard for than thofe who preach fo much about it, and pradice it fo little. The little mean, invidious Reflexion at the End Ihews the Rancour and Malice of his Heart, which a plain Matter of Fad will difcover. I have before obferv'd, that he ordered and didated all his Offi- cers Journals agreeable to his own, and would have had me done the fame ; the Journal which I have given in was of my own keeping, and as to what he infinuates about one copied by Grance Grant, if that will be of any Confequence, I have it to pro- duce. I am, with the grcateft Refped:, SIR; &c, 2 William Moor^ ih C iC- en Cape Captain re when driving having diftant, -Beach, Jt 8 or not fo ivere fet ; Shore, pany of enough Land ; one fo, Exam- I try'd is more neither fy'd at Regard it, and be End which ; before s Offi- Id have I have ) what ant, if o pro- VIoor; '■^■■j