AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 



There be others also, who either in their maps, or 

 writings have noted the situation of Island : notwith- 

 standing it is to no purpose to set downe any more of 

 their opinions, because the more you have, the more 

 contrary shall you finde them. For my part, albeit I 

 have probable conjectures perswading me not to beleeve 

 any of the former opinions, concerning the situation of 

 Island, but to dissent from them all : yet had I rather 

 leave the matter in suspense then affirme an uncerteinty, 

 untill (as I have sayd) I may be able perhappes one day 

 not to gesse at the matter, but to bring forth mine owne 

 observation, and experience. 



A certeine writer hath put downe the distance betweene 

 the mouth of Elbe & Batzende in the South part of 

 Island to be 400 leagues : from whence if you shall 

 account the difference of longitude to the meridian of 

 Hamburgh, Island must have none of the forenamed 

 Seven dayes longitudes in that place. I am able to proove by three 



sauingjrom sm^dry voyages of certaine Hamburgers, that it is but 



Hamburg. seven dayes sailing from Island to Hamburgh. Besides 



Island but two all those Islands, which by reason of the abundance of 



dayes sailing sheepe, are called Fareyiar, or more rightly Faareyiar, 



distant from ^g likewise the desert shores of Norway, are distant from 



l^ from the ' ^^ ^^^ ^^° dayes sailing. We have foure dayes sailing 



desert shores into habitable Gronland : and almost in the same quantitie 



of Norway. of time we passe over to the province of Norway, called 



Stad, lying betweene the townes of Nidrosia or Trondon, 



and Bergen, as we finde in the ancient records of these 



nations. 



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