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left a wife and three children behind, 
forely repined at his being feparated 
from them : they were, as he told me, 
constantly in his mind, and the thought 
of never more feeing them made him 
very unhappy. But I will now give 
lome account of the iiland, and relate 
what the failors told me about it. 
In the fea-chart of the northern parts 
of Europe, drawn by Gerhard van 
Keulen, and corrected by John Pe- 
tersen Stuurman, this iiland of Eafl- 
Spitzbergen, the Maloy Brown of the 
Ruffians, is placed between 77 . 25'. and 
78°. 45'. of north latitude, and confe- 
quently between the end of the third, and 
the beginning of the fourth climate ; 
iiQncc the longeil: duration of day-li^ht 
there, mud be four months in the year. 
According to the above Map, this iiland 
forms a kind of pentagone : its length, 
from eaft to w r efr, is about one hundred 
and twenty, and its breadth, from north 
to fouth, about one hundred and fifteen 
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