THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE ad 



1576. 



Magellans frette hath, the onely want whereof causeth 

 all narrow passages generally to be most violent. So 

 would I say in the Anian gulfe, if it were so narrow as 

 Don Diego and Zalterius have painted it out, any returne 

 that way to bee full of difficulties, in respect of such 

 streightnesse thereof, not for the neerenesse of the Sunne, 

 or Easterne windes, violently forcing that way any levant 

 streame : But in that place there is more sea roome by 

 many degrees, if the Cardes of Cabota, and Gemma 

 Frisius, and that which Tramezine imprinted, be true. 

 And hitherto reason see I none at all, but that I may 

 as well give credite unto their doings, as to any of the 

 rest. It must be Peregrinationis historia, that is, true Llb - "• G *°g- 

 reportes of skilfull travailers, as Ptolome writeth, that in a ?' z ' 

 such controversies of Geographie must put us out of 

 doubt. Ortelius in his universall tables, in his particular [III. 29.] 

 Mappes of the West Indies, of all Asia, of the Northren 

 kingdomes, of the East Indies, Mercator in some of his 

 globes, and generall Mappes of the world, Moletius in 

 his universall table of the Globe divided, in his sea Carde, 

 and particuler tables of the East Indies, Zalterius, and 

 Don Diego, with Ferdinando Bertely, and others, doe so 

 much differ from Gemma Frisius and Cabota, among 

 themselves, and in divers places from themselves, con- 

 cerning the divers situation and sundry limits of America, 

 that one may not so rashly, as truely surmise, these men 

 either to be ignorant in those points touching the afore- 

 said region, or that the Mappes they have given out unto 

 the world, were collected onely by them, and never of 

 their owne drawing. 



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