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The Di virion 



SchttUni the 

 Tfjule of the 

 Ancients. 



Chap. V. i AMEBIC A. 



The ancient Inhabitants of this Place (for it is to be flipped that there were 

 People here before the coming over of Ingulfus) were call'd Pap<e * x %&h*> and the 

 Eaft fide of the Ifland, Tapey y which agrees very well with the Names of two little 

 Iflands on the Coaft of Scotland, Tappa and WeJ}repappa y from which many conjecture 

 as alfo from feveral Crofles and Bells found upon the Place, that there hath been 

 in former Ages a relort of the Irijl?, and of the People of the North- Weft parts of 

 Scotland, 



The Eaftern Bound of I/eland is call'd Ju/iurbom. the Wcftern, %andefandur ; 

 the Northern, Langanes ; and the Southern, %euranes. The Ifland being divided ac- ***** 

 cording to the four Quarters of the World, 2{ortb -Ifland is fever'd from EaJl-IJland 

 by the aforefaid Promontory of Langanes ; from Weft.JJland by <I(utafiprdur Bay - 

 from South JJland, byvaftand unpayable Defarts. Between South- Ifland and Eafl- 

 IJland runneth the River Jocolfu, through the Defarts of Solfeimafande. Between 

 South-lfland and Wejl-ljland a famous River nam'd Albis, which emptieth it felf into 

 the Bay of Bargarfiord. 



'Tis a vulgar Opinion, that this Ifland is the fame which the Ancients call'd 

 Tbule j but upon confederation it will appear, that by the Ultima Tbule taken notice 

 of by Virgil, Claudian, Statius, Pythias Mafsilienfts, Pliny, Seneca, Soling, Tacitus, and 

 others, is meant one of the Britijb Ifles, amongft which were comprehended 

 the Ifles on the North of Scotland, as the Orcades, and fome others, the utmoft of 

 which we call Scbetland,znd is very probable to be this UltimaThule of the Ancients. 



Nova Zembla, lying under feventy fix Degrees of Northern Latitude, and a hun- x— w 

 dred and twelve Degrees and twenty five Minutes of Longitude, and being rec Sb^df* 

 kon'd above two hundred Miles in length, was, together with the River Pttora 

 and Straights of Weyg4ts, difcover'd, (and,as it isthought.firftof all) by Stephen Bur* 

 rough, who was fent out by the MufcoYta Company in the Year i jj6. to find out a 

 Way to Cathay by the North*Eaft. 



Afterwards one Oliver Bund, aDafcfc-man, mov'd with the hope of Gain, went 

 from Enkhuijfen to Tecora ; where (having firft difcover'd Qoft'mfarca in NoVa Zembla) 

 he loft all by Shipwrack. 



The States*General nothing difcourag'd with the little fuccefs of thefc two Voya* 

 gers, fent forth two Ships under the Command of Hugo Linfcbot, to the Straights of 

 Weygats,&na\ two others under William Barrents, who were to go directly Northwards 

 for 2s[ova Zembla : Linfcbot went fifty Miles beyond the Straights, but the Nor- 

 therly Winds and late Seafon of the year fore'd him to haften back with all poffible 

 (peed. William Barents and his Company were neceffitated in the Year 1596. being 

 not able to get off, in regard the Ice increas'd upon them more and more, to take 

 up their Winter Quarters there in a Cottage, which they made a fliift to caft up 

 for their prefent neceflity, having much ado to defend thcmfelves againft the Bears, 

 that continually affaulted them. 



This Countrey is generally deliver'd to be a barren and defart Countrey, full P&t*m<# : 

 of Wood indeed, but the Boughs as bare of Leaves, as the Ground of Grafs ; alfo »*/« 

 very incommodious to be travcll'd through, by reafon of its defartnefs, and the 

 danger of Bears, great fierce Foxes, and fuch like ravenous Beafts, which feed onely 

 upon Flefli, and which are the onely Beafts this Countrey harbors. 



In a Journal of Mr* Henry Hudfon, there is to be found a much more favorable 



Defcription of the Countrey : " Generally (faith he) the Land of Nova Zembla 



" that we have feen, is to a Man's Eye a pleafant Land, much Main High-land 



11 with no Snow on it, looking in fome places green, and Deer feeding thereon, 



cc and the Hills partly cover'd with Snow, and partly bare. 



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