180 DESCRirXION OF GREENLAND. 



this eclipse ivas apparent at Munches Port hettveen its com- 

 mencement and its end, that is to say, towards the middle of 

 the time that it lasted and at the hour, or thereabouts, that it 

 should have been seen at Paris ; whence it will result, that 

 ivhen it is three o'clock in the morning at Paris, it is only 

 eight o'clock in the evening of the preceding day at Munck''s 

 Port, and that there are seven hours difference between one 

 place and the other. 



Now, by taking Jif teen degrees for each hour, according to 

 the rides of science, it will folloic also that the meridian of 

 Munck''s Port will be distant from the meridian of Paris 

 one hundred and jive degrees ; and that, placing Paris in the 

 ticenty-third degree and a half of longitude, MuncMs Port 

 shoidd be placed in the two hundred and seventy -eighth de- 

 gree and a half, that is to say, eighty-one degrees and a half 

 beyond the meridian of the Canaries. And it will be evident 

 by the same reasoning, that if we reckon twelve common 

 French leagues to each degree of this parallel, the degrees of 

 lohieh are smaller by about half than the degrees of the great 

 circles, this port will be distant from Paris one thousand two 

 hundred and sixty leagues. I have divided the southern j^art 

 of Greenland, taken at Cape Farewell, into two islands, in 

 the manner in which they are here represented. This I have 

 done, not from the Danish accounts, of which I have made 

 use for my history, for they do not speak of it, but from a 

 map in the library of Cardinal Mazarin, which M. Naude 

 {ivho is the soul of the great collection of excellent books and 

 curious researches of which that distinguished library is com- 

 j)osed) did me the favour to show me. At the bottom of this 

 map the folloioing words are written : — 



FTcec delineatio facta est per Martinum jilium Arnoldi 

 natum in Hollandia, Civitafe dicta den Briel qui bis naviga- 

 tionem ad insidam dictam antiquam Groenlandiam, instituit; 

 tanquam supremus Gubcrnator, ano. 1G24 ^' 1C25. 



2'his Martin, son of Arnold, calls Greenland an island, 



