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But in cafe that frequent Lands and Iflands are to be paficd , it 
will be the fafer courfe to cbufe the largeftand nioft open Chan- 
nels, and not to fayl near the fides that lie to the North , but to 
chufc rather the Southern (hoars, which arc feldom , or at leaft not 
fo much, pefter'd with Ice. 
When the nature of this Sea and of its feveral Straights (hall 
be more perfedily difcover'd, it is not to be doubted, but that 
he whole Voyage betwixt Us and Jafonmzy be performed in the 
j^aceof five or fix weeks , at the moft. But in cafe it Ihould, 
ither by accident or grofs errour, fo fall out, that the Ships 
flbould he forced to winter there before they could recover home, 
this likewife might be done without much danger ; provided that 
they avoided the unadvifed proceeding of the Dufch y who being 
caught, and neceffitated to pafs the winter in the moft Northern 
piimats, planted themfelves there upon the higheft lands^ inHutts 
fram'dof thin boards, (whereas in L^i/^l^^;^^ it felf it is impolfible 
to live fo^ but they ought to fink their houfes under ground, 
and to heap much earth over them ; fince 'tis not poflible, or, at 
leaft, cxtreamly difficult for men to fubfift in fuchan exceflivefc- 
verity of Winter , unlefs they neft themfelres deep under the 
Earth. 
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