[53] The following names were given by John Davis in the Arctic regions.
- 1. Chidley (or Chudleigh) Cape, S. entrance to Hudson Strait.
- 2. Cumberland (Earl of) Gulf.
- 3. Darcy Island, Labrador.
- 4. Desolation Land and Cape, S. Greenland.
- 5. Dyer Cape, North point of Exeter Sound.
- 6. Exeter Sound, Baffin Land.
- 7. Farewell Cape, S. point of Greenland.
- 8. Furious Overfall, Hudson Strait.
- 9. Gilbert Sound, Greenland 64° 15′ (Godthaab).
- 10. God’s Mercy Cape, N. entrance of Cumberland Gulf.
- 11. London Coast, West Coast of Greenland.
- 12. Raleigh Mount, Baffin Land.
- 13. Sanderson His Hope, 72° 12′ N., Baffin Bay.
- 14. Totnes Road, 66° 40′ N., Baffin Land.
- 15. Walsingham Cape, Baffin Land.
- 16. Warwick (Earl of) Foreland, Baffin Land.
[54] A portrait of Sir Thomas Smith was engraved by Simon de Passe, dated 1617. The engraving is bound up in T. Grenville’s copy of the Embassy to Russia and in a book called the Surgeon’s Mate, which is dedicated to Sir Thomas. By his wife Sarah, daughter of William Blunt, who married secondly Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester, Sir Thomas had a son, Sir John Smith, who married a daughter of Sir Philip Sidney’s “Stella” and his son Robert married Waller’s “Sacharissa.”
[55] The works of Leonard Digges were edited and published by his son: Tectonicum, a book on land-surveying (4to, 1556), Pantometria, a geometrical treatise (folio, 1591).
[56] Thomas Digges wrote Alæ sive Scalæ Mathematicæ (4to, 1573), Arithmetical Military Treatise (4to, 1579), Stvatioticos, a geometrical treatise necessary for the practice of soldiers (4to, 1590), with an account of the proceedings of the Earl of Leicester for the relief of Sluys, also Description of the Celestial Orbs (1599), and England’s Defence (folio, 1686).
[57] The eldest son, Thomas Digges, succeeded to Chilham and died in 1687. His son Leonard died in 1718 leaving a son Thomas, whose second son West Digges was a celebrated comedian. Chilham was finished in 1616 and the names of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife Mary Kempe are carved over the door.
[58] See the writer’s volume The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to the East Indies, edited for the Hakluyt Society in 1877.
[59] Purchas calls her the Frost.
[60] Mount Kakatsiak.
[61] Cape Sophia is Proestefjeld (1170 ft.), just north of Holsteinborg.