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And the Prince of Latin Po6ts, Virgil, faw amongft his Heroes in 
hisflowry theValiant for their Countrey, the Elo- 
quent^ and the Inventors of Arts for humane Accommodations, 
and thofe who purchafed lafting Honor by real merit : Thefe 
he faw there crown d with Garlands as white as fnow : 
Heic mams, oh fatriam fugmnAo vulneraptjjl ; 1 
^uique pi faUs, Fh^bo digm locuti \ ( 
Inventus aut qdvitam excoluere per Artes^ \^neid.6,v, 
^uiqi^e [ui me mores alios fee ere merendo : f ^^o. 
Ommbus his mvea cirigmtur tempora, vitta. j 
Thefe old Elegies do juftly belong to our Noble Friends and 
worthy Correrpondents,who do fpend fo much of their Lives, 
and Labors, (and fome their Treafures alfo,) to oblige even the 
ungrateful^and their yet unborn Pofterity. 
Now I go on chearfully and with a refolved mind, beginning 
with 
A Letter J not long fmce written to the Publijber by an Experien- 
ced person reading at AmdcrdaxD^containing a trueDefcription 
^/^'Nova ZGinbh^together rvith an intimation of the advantage 
of its [hape and pofition. 
SIR, 
1 Here with fend you what I have received out of Mufcovy^ 
which is a New Mapp of Nova Zembla zndWeigats, as it 
hath been difcover*d by the exprefs order of the Czar ; 
and drawn by a Painter, calledP^;?^/^/>i?^/5^/,who fent it me from 
Mofco for a prefent : By which it appears, That Nova Zembla 
is not an Ifland,as hitherto it hath been believed to be ; and that 
the Mare glaciale is not a Sea, but a Sinus or Bay , the 
waters whereof are fweet. Which is the fame with what the 
Tartars do aTo affure us,who have tafted thofe waters in the ve- 
ry niidft of the Sinus. The Samfljeds^s well as the Tartars do 
unanimouQy affirm, that pafling on the back of Nova Zembla^ at 
a confiderablediftance from the fliore,Naviga tors may well pafs 
as far as Jafan,kr\d 'tis a great fault in the Englifh dLudDutch^ihdit 
feeking to get to Japan on the South-fide of Nova Zembla^ they 
have almoft always paffed the Weigats. The letter 0 in the great 
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