NavigantmmatqueltmerantiumBibliotheca. 
Or, A Complete Collection of 
VOYAGES and TRAVELS. 
BOOK II. 
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Voyages and Discoveries towards the NORTH, and through moft 
of the Countries of Europe. 
CHAP. I. 
The Discoveries made diredtly towards the NORTH, and the Attempts hitherto 
made for finding the North-east and North-west Paflages. 
SECTION I. 
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"^h^ History cf the Countries lying round the North Pole; their Clitnate^ Soil, and 
Produce ; together with an Account of the Cufoms, Manners, and Trade of their 
Inhabitants, 
li .AfuccinSi InfroduShon to the Hijiory of the northern Parts of the World, Jhewing the Peafon of confdei"^ 
ingthem m this Part of the Work, rather than tn any other. 2. Phe frf Pifcovery, Situation, and 
Plantation of Groenland, or old Greenland, and the Accidents by which the Knowledge of that Country 
was afterwards lofl.^ 3. Phe fever al Voyages for the Recovery of that Country^ fr om the Reve'rend Mr^ 
John Egede, a Danifh Mifionary, who rejided there fifteen Years. 4. Phe Soil, Produce, Plants, See. in 
this Country, and the Probability oj~ its being anciently much more fruitful than at prefent* 5. Pipe Climate^ 
Seafons, Length of the Lays, Fogs, Mountains oj Ice, &c. in this Country, and in the Seas adjacent. 
6 . Of the Various Animals in Groenland, and oj the Manner in which the Inhabitants hunt the Rain~ 
Leer in the Inland Part of the Country, y. Phe difi'erent Methods praSUfed by the Inhabitants in Fifij-^ 
ing, particularly the various Inventions made ife oj for catching Seals, and other amphibious Animals. 
8. Pheir Ingenuity in making Hooks, Lines, and other fifising Packle their Method of confiruBing Boats 
of fever al Sorts, and their ftirprizing Manner of navigating them. 9. Pheir Houfes in which they live in 
Winter their Beds, Lamps, Kettles, and other Furniture ', their Pent s in which they live in Summer, 
and their Manner of tranfporting them. 10, Pheir Cujioms, Manner of Livings Virtues, Vices, Civility 
to Strangers, and whatever elfe concerns the Behaviour of the Natives. 11. Pheir Cloathing, Neatnejs, 
and Conveniency of iti Lifter ence in the Habits of Men and Women, and the Changes wrought in this 
RefpeSi, by the fettling a DaniHi Colony in that Country. 12, Phe Commodities and Commerce of (Jroen- 
iMiQ. •, the Religion of the Inhabitants-, their Notions of Afironomy, and furpri zing Pafiion for Poetry. 
upon the foregoing Particulars i and the Reafons which induced the Dutch, and 
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