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Thofe who iiimiediately fucceeded tbem in that adventure, were 
not much more fucccfsful for treading the fame fteps that the for- 
mer had done , becoming involved in the fame difficulties : For 
they were mif led by an opinion, that that part of the Sea which 
lieth betwixt Novn-zembk and the Continent of T^r/^r^ , had 
been p affable, and that they might have failed through that to 
China : But it is now well known to the ^Mufccvites and others, 
that Nova zemhla h no Ifland, but a part of iartary ; to the Eaft- 
^ftde whereof it is annexed by a large neck of land : Infomuch 
that the arm of Sea, inro which men pafs through the Straight of 
Weygatz , is not truly Sea , but a Lake of 
^€owpartherewtthi^. loi. fy^jl, waters * ; the great abundance of 
^/$^1;:^;;?;^^^ mvers, which cutoff empty them- 
fcpiption 9f the figHYt And ftlvcs into this Gulf , occafioning this 
M^tionof^y^•l.tm\^^. p^eibj fo that it is not to be counted 
ftrange^ if, cfpecially in the Winter feafon, thefe waters are 
Wrongly bound up by the fro ft. 
Mor ought any man to wonder, why the Navigation of William 
Barentjz, (ocherwife a well-experienced Mariner ) was unfuccefs- 
ful; who pafled along the coaft of Nova-zmhh , as far as the 
ffiventy feventh degree of Northern-latitude : For ic is well 
fenowntoall that fayl Northward , thacmoftof th(5fe Northern 
coafts are frozen up many leagues j though in the open Sea ic is 
gJot fo ; no noruuderthe Poleitfelf/unlefs by accident, as when, 
for example, upon the approach of the Summer, the froft break- 
etb, and the Ice, which was congealed near forty or fifty leagues 
to the (hoar, breaks off from the land and floats up and down in 
^heSea. 
This was the main obftruSion to thofe that direfled their 
eourfe fomewhac higher towards the North ; who encountring 
"yrith the vaft flakes of Ice, which coming from the feveral flioars 
are driven to and fro in all parts , were forced to quit their de« 
fign, and Hand back for their own Country. 
There wasjfome years fince, a tknoc of Merchants of Amfiet^ 
dams whoattcmpced thofe Seas with much better fuccefs than the 
former. For, being advanced to the feventy nintbor eightieth 
d^ree of Norif3ern»!atitiide,they paffed above an hundred leagues 
sbove i^TiJ-yi^ gim^/^ toward the Eaft i And^ although they gave 
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