THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE a.d. 



1576. 



plenty in all the North parts therunto adjoyning, as in 

 Lappia, Noruegia, Finmarke, &c. as Jacobus Zieglerus 

 writeth in his historie of Scondia. 



And as Albertus saieth, there is a fish which hath but 

 one home in his forehead like to an Unicorne, and 

 therefore it seemeth very doubtfull both from whence 

 it came, and whether it were an Unicornes home, yea, 

 or no. 



His third and last reason was, that there came a con- The third and 

 tinuall streame or current through Mare Glaciale, of such re ? son ot 

 swiftnesse (as a Colmax told him) that if you cast any 

 thing therein, it would presently be carried out of sight 

 towards the West. 



Whereunto I answered, that there doth the like from The answer or 

 Maeotis Palus, by Pontus Euxinus, Sinus Bosphorus, resQUtl0n - 

 and along the coast of Graecia, &c. As it is affirmed by 

 Contarenus, and divers others that have had experience 

 of the same : and yet that Sea lieth not open to any 

 maine Sea that way, but is maintained by freshets as by 

 Tanais, Danubius, &c. 



In like maner is this current in Mare Glaciale in- 

 creased and maintained by the Dwina, the river Ob, &c. 



Now as I have here briefly recited the reasons alleaged, 

 to proove a passage to Cataia by the Northeast, with 

 my severall answeres thereunto : so will I leave it to 

 your judgement, to hope or dispaire of either at your 

 pleasure. 



How that the passage by the Northwest is more 

 commodious for our traffique, then the other 

 by the East, if there were any such. 



Cap. 9. 



First, by the Northeast (if your windes doe not give 

 you a marvelous speedie & luckie passage) you are 

 in danger (being so neere the Pole) to be benighted 

 almost the one halfe of the yeere, and what danger that 

 were, to live so long comfortlesse, voide of light, (if the 



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