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1 5. Q Whether thU. hnke fre.ez,eth^ and -whether it hath msnf- 
fountains on its bmks or CGmmingfrcm near hilis f A. It freezerii 
in the Wincer like other Lakes : So the Fiflies of this Lake have a 
clofer habitation rhan thofe in others ; for they are under the Ice 
a part of the Winter, and nnder the Earth a part of the Summer^ 
1 6» Q: What changes the Fi/herrnen find on that ^one they caH 
the Fi flier- ftone, thereby toconje6ture the time when the water k to 
run may 1 A. That which ihey call the FiJher-(ione^\s a large (lone 
upon one of the Hills or elevated parts of the Field, which when- 
foever it appears above v^ater, the Fifhermen, being upon the 
Lake, take notice of ir, and know thereby^ that in a few dayes 
the water will retire under ground. For, after the filling of the 
Lake in Seftember^ the watef never decreafeth fo low again, as to 
let the Fifber jione appear till it begins to retire underground. 
^ ISfarrative of feme Observations made ufon feveral Voyages^ un* 
der taken to find a way for failing about the North to the Eafl- 
Indies, and for returningthe fame way from thence hither : To' 
get her with lnjlru5i ions given by the Dutch Eaji-lndid Company 
for the DifcQvery of the famous Land of]tfio npar Japan. To 
which is added a Relation of failing through the Northern America 
to the Eaft-Indies. Englijhedby th^EubiiJher out of Dutch.which 
had keen composed by Dirick Rembrantz van Nlerop, and printed 
at Amfterdam 1674. in 40. 
AMongfi: the feveral wayes, by eminent Navigators tBought up- 
on, for failing to the Eafi'lndies,thd,z feems not the leaft con- 
fiderable,which hath been propofed and attempted to beperform'd 
by theNorth-Eaft. WiUiam Barentz, , an experienced Pilot and 
fiout Seaman of the Neatherlands,in his Voyages of the Year 1 594. 
and 1 59 6, failed Northward as far as to 7 7^ 20'. with an intention 
to have turn'd to the JMortb-EaJi^ until he fliould by eftimate find, 
he had in that courfe advanced far enough to change his courfe into 
that of South'EaJl or South, and fo to difeover Chinay, Catay^ or 
Japan : But he was diverted from this purpofe by his company , 
though he perfifted until death in thaC opinion of his, viz, that that 
way of failing far to the North of Nova Zembla, where there was 
a fpatious Sea, free from Ice, and leis cold than at a more Souther- 
ly Latitude, was the moft probable way of difcovering the Eaf- 
Indies on that fide of the World* 
Upon this SuppofitiondiversVoyages have beenattempted v:iih 
the like intention : And though hitherto the Attempt hath been 
made that way, only from the fide of Europe ; yet that famous Sea- 
mat), 
