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the neareft arm of the Sea , rather than through the more re- 
mote. Be it how ic will, we may hence fafely conclude, ihat 
the Sea which lies hctwixt Japo?^ dx\d Spitzherg is paffible, and 
that through more perhaps than one arm or channel, by which they 
communicate. 
But to go on : After the Experiments made by the Gover- 
nour&^of the Eaft-/W/^ Company, in the years 52 and $3^ 
they refolved to proceed no further upon the Difcovery ; as 
well becaufe the Emperour of Jafon interdifled the Naviga- 
tion of Forraigaers into Jezzo , in regard (as they fay) of 
the vaft tribute which he raifeth annually upon the Silver- 
Mines there 5 as becaufe they think, it may 
little conduce to their f advantage, to have + ^« ^oth& 
this compendious way of Navigation dif- ^^^^^^'i^ of EngUxid. 
covered, And therefore they have thought 
fit to prohibit all farther fearch into the Navigation to "jezzo ., 
and the Countries adjacent upon which very reafon they 
have alfo endeavoured to conceal their ^ujlral Plantati- 
ons. 
Now concerning that trad or fpace which lieth betwixr 
Spitzherg^ NovA^zemhU^ and the Straights of Jezzo 9 we have 
no reafon, for ought J fee, to entertain any doubts though 
notfo much in regard of thepalTage, which the Whale above- 
mentioned found, ( that being but a conjcftural ground,! as 
becaufe many of the^^JMufcovife ^ Itinera- 
ries affureus, that the Coaft of Tartaryrms * «'^^* (Z 
not North- ward from NovA-^emUd , but ^JTe^/p^P^^ 
turns up very much towards the Eafl: ; J}ay fame pars with the 
fo that the Head-land of Nova-zembU is . f 
far the moft Northern part or ail Jay^ make a famiiu%r' ac^ 
^aaifjtance with that peop/ej 
' mb» feem to k»ove> tb/tt paf- 
fuge* Many things mi^ht ht difcotertd in ihi^ mamtr ^ b@th as to JJLtndi cindTtits, 
firma. 
This may likewife be collefied out of the Hiftories and 
Mappsof Chim^ which affirm , that thofe who pafs from thb 
Wall Chim Northward, may, in the fpace of fourteen days, 
reach the Sea. And the coaft of Jmar/^ which lies beyond the 
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