THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE a.d. 



1576. 

 Turkes ships) but do carie themselves from place to 

 place neere the shore by the ore onely. 



To proove that those Indians came not by the 

 Northeast, and that there is no thorow navi- 

 gable passage that way. 



Cap. 6. 



IT is likely that there should be no thorow passage by 

 the Northeast, whereby to goe round about the world, 

 because all Seas (as aforesayd) are maintained by the 

 abundance of water, waxing more shallow and shelffie 

 towards the ende, as we find it doeth by experience in 

 Mare Glaciali, towards the East, which breedeth small 

 hope of any great continuance of that sea, to be navigable 

 towards the East, sufficient to saile thereby round about 

 the world. 



2 Also, it standeth scarcely with reason, that the [Hf l8 -] 



Indians dwelling under Torrida Zona, could endure the Q ulC( l uld 

 ... /- , ° 1 j , 1 r- • 1 1 • 1 natural! loco 



injune or the cold ayre, about the Septentrional latitude p r - watury 



of 80. degrees, under which elevation the passage by the quam citlssime 



Northeast cannot bee (as the often experience had of all corrumpitur. 



the South parts of it sheweth) seeing that some of the 



inhabitants of this cold climate (whose Summer is to them Quails causa 



an extreme Winter) have bene stroken to death with the talls e l ectus - 



cold damps of the aire about 72 degrees, by an accidental 



mishap, and yet the aire in such like Elevation is alwaies 



cold, and too cold for such as the Indians are. 



3 Furthermore, the piercing cold of the grosse thicke 

 aire so neere the Pole wil so stiffen and furre the sailes 

 and ship tackling, that no mariner can either hoise or 

 strike them (as our experience farre neerer the South, 

 then this passage is presupposed to be, hath taught us) 

 without the use whereof no voiage can be performed. 



4 Also, the aire is so darkened with continuall mists 

 and fogs so neere the Pole, that no man can well see, 

 either to guide his ship, or direct his course. 



5 Also the compasse at such elevation doth very 



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