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feem to eftablim its veracity beyond contradiction : I mall there- 

 fore copy the very words of Wood % 



" Captain Goulden, who had made above thirty voyages to 

 " Greenland, did relate to his majefty, that, being at Greenland. 

 " fome twenty years before, he was in company with two Hoi— 

 " landers to the eafhvard of Edge's ifland* ; and that the whales- 

 " not appearing on the more, the two Hollanders were deter- 

 " mined to go further Northward, and in a fortnight's time re— 

 " turned, and gave it out that they had failed into the lat. 89, 

 " and that they did not meet with any ice, but a free and open 

 " fea ;. and that there run a very hollow grown b fea, like that of 

 " the Bay of Bifcay. Mr. Goulden being not fatisfied with the 

 " bare relation, they produced him four journals out of the two 

 " mips, which teftifled the fame,, and that they all. agreed within., 

 " four minutes b , 



2 Moxon's account of a Dutch" fhip having been two degrees beyond ; 

 the Pole, was alio much relied upon by Wood, which hath never been 

 printed at large, but in a now very fcarce tradt of Moxon's, and in the 

 fecond volume of Harris's Voyages, p. 396. In confirmation of this- 

 very circumffantial and interefting narrative, I have only to. add, that 

 Moxon was hydrographer to Charles II. and hath publimed feveral i 

 fcientific treatifes. See the Catalogue of the Bodleian Library., 



a Edge's illand was difcovered, A. D. 1616, by Captain Thomas- 

 Edge, who had made ten voyages to thofe feas.. See the Supplement to. 

 the N. E. Voyages, London, 1694, 8vo.. Wyche's Ifland, fo called from., 

 a Gentleman of that name, was difcovered in the following year. . Ibid. 



b Wood's Voyage, p. 145. Grown Sea, is the expreffion in the origi- 

 nal. " Which is not practicable in thefe tempeftuous high grown feas." 

 Dr. Halley, in his Journal, p. 45. Wood's Voyage was publilhed by 

 Smith and Walford, Printers to the Royal Society in 1694, together 

 with Sir John NarborOugh's, Marten's, and other Navigators. The book 

 is dedicated to Pepys, Secretary to the Admiralty; and he is compli- 

 mented therein for having furailhed the materials. . 



Having 



