ABSTRACT
Fox did not consider he had, by any means, a made but a scurvie voyage of it". In his " answer to aspersions", already quoted, he declares, he has "proceeded in these discoveries further than any other of his predecessors, in lesse time, and at lesse charge": that he has "cleared up all the expected hopes upon the W. side of Button's Bay from 64! circularly to 55, and on the point from Swans' Nest to Sharke Point[?]., not perfectly discouered but now by him"; and that he "carrie(l a tyde, comming from south east through Fretum H udson, all along that east side to 66 degrees 30 minutes, or thereabouts, things not knowne heretofore".
