SECOND EDITION 1598 



dayes in Sommer and of nights in Winter, of the tempera- 

 ture of the land and sea, of the time and maner of the 

 congealing, continuance, and thawing of the Ice in those 

 Seas, of the first Discoverie and inhabiting of that Island, 

 of the first planting of Christianitie there, as likewise of 

 the continuall flaming of mountains, strange qualities of 

 fountains, of hel-mouth, and of purgatorie which those 

 authors have fondly written and imagined to be there. 

 All which treatise ought to bee the more acceptable ; first 

 in that it hath brought sound trueth with it ; and secondly^ 

 in that it commeth from that farre Northren climate which 

 most men would suppose could not affoord any one so 

 learned a Patrone for it selfe. 



And thus (friendly Reader) thou seest the briefe 

 summe and scope of all my labours for the common- 

 wealths sake, and thy sake, bestowed upon this first 

 Volume : which if thou shalt as thankefully accept, as I 

 have willingly and freely imparted with thee, I shall bee 

 the better encouraged speedily to acquaint thee with 

 those rare, delightfull and profitable histories, 

 which I purpose (God willing) to pub- 

 lish concerning the Southerne 

 and Westerne partes 

 of the World. 



Postscriptum. 



Not knowing any other place so convenient, I am here to advertise 

 the friendly Reader of certaine faultes escaped in the printing of this 

 booke, and to request him that in the Page 54. and in the last line save 

 two, hee would in stead of Kine, read Swine, and he shall thereby avoid 

 a great contradiction : likewise pag. 187. that hee would unto the ende 

 of the second verse of the Prologue to the English Policy, make supply of 

 the word Rest, which is there wanting: also pag. 221. lin. 29. for 

 woorthinesse read woorthies, &c. Other faults (if there bee any) are 

 (I doubt not) easily corrigible. 



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