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Rooms under Ground, foursquare, and two Yards deep in the Earth. Their 

 manner of Burial, a Pile of Stones thrown over the Corps, being firft wrapt up in 

 Seal-Skins. 

 lclyS%7- Spilbergia, Co call'd by the Hollanders, from Spilbergen, whom probably they rec- 

 SHw kon to have been the firft Difcoverer of it, is the fame that we vulgarly call Green- 

 land, and which Sir Hugh Willoughby (if not the firft of all, yet at leaft the firft of the 

 Englifb that difcover'd any thing of thefe Parts) nam'd IQngJames's Net-Land. The 

 faid Sir Hugh Willoughby fet forth Anno 1553. in the <Bona E$eran%a, accompany'd 

 with two Ships more, vi^. the Bonaventure, Richard Cballoner Captain, and the Bona 

 Confidential and after fome time of Coafting up and down thofe Northern Seas, he 

 Landed with his Company upon the Place, where flaying a few days, he fent three 

 Men three days Journey into the Countrey South-Weft, and three more as far full 

 Weft, who all, after much hardfliip in their Travelling, return'd without having 

 met any People by the Way, or feen the leaft appearance of any Habitation. Sail, 

 ing hence back for Lapland, they were all frozen to death in the Haven Ar%ina. 

 SfpXn A Description of Greenland by one Mr. %obert Fotherby, reprefents the Nature of 

 oiGuenUni. t hi s Place contradictory to its Name, as before was obferv'd of Groenland: " For 

 " certainly (faith he) no part of the World, yet known and difcover'd, is lefs Green 

 u than this, both the Mountains and Low-lands being cover'd with Snow till the 

 "beginning of June. The Countrey, which is for the moft part mountainous, 

 " bearing neither Grafs nor Tree, fave onely Heath or Ling, as it is call'd in the 

 u North parts of England, which grows upon the Moors or Heathy Grounds when 

 " the Snow begins to melt,and.on which in Summer the Deer feed themfelves fat in 

 lt one Moneth • but how they live in the Winter, is a thing beyond any Man's skill 

 "to comprehend, efpecially during the Sun's abfence under the Horizon, which 

 " in the Latitude of feventy feven Degrees continues from the eighteenth of Oclober 

 lt to the fourth of February. 



This Countrey is by many fuppos'd never to have been inhabited by Men, yet 

 not altogether uncapable of affording Habitation to fuch as would bring with 

 them fufficient defenfive Weapons againft Hunger and Cold : For other Animals, it 

 is found, by the teftimony of thofe that have been upon the Place, not to be defti- 

 tute ; for befides Deer before mentioned, there have been feen Bears and Foxes', 

 and of wild Fowl, Cuthbert Ducks, Willocks, Stints, Sea-Pigeons, Sea-Parrots* 

 Gulls, Noddies, <ts-c. 



The Southermoft part of Greenland, call'd Point Lookout, ftands in feventy fix 

 Degrees and thirty Minutes. The Weft fide of the Land was difcover'd by the 

 firft Voyagers Northward as far as eighty Degrees and odd Minutes, and in that 

 compafs fix or eight good Harbors for the Whale.fifliing ; the Eaft fide as far as 

 feventy eight Degrees, with divers Iflands, both great and fmall, yielding good 

 Harbors, and ftore of Whales and Sea.Horfes. 

 <***?*** In tfie Year l6l °' J° na4 Poo/ > Mafter of the Amity fell in with this Land in Mm 



and others to , , f . . /%*»/- 



Greenhnd. and contmu d upon the Coaft, difcovering of Harbors, and killing of Morfes, till 

 June following : and he is laid to have been the firft that gave this Countrey the 

 Name of Greenland. The next year he fet out again, accompany'd with Thomas 

 Edge, Commander of the Mary Margaret • And fince many other Voyages have been 

 made as to a Place known, and a great Trade driven in catching of Whales, not 

 without feveral Contefts with the "Dutch and Danes, but nothing of late difcover'd 

 confiderablc more than in the firft Voyages. The Harbors, Sounds and Coaftings 

 moft taken notice of, are Fair Foreland, Cape Q>ld,<Blachfoint,HonuSound, fyotty.foint, 

 BelLSound, LoVneft, QroJ?-<Hpad, Veer, Sound, FowhSound, Cloje-Co\e, Gurnet-Nofe, Ice- 

 Sound, and Green-Hay en. There 



