An account of several late voyages and discoveries

xii The Introduélion A. D. 1497. John Cabot '""' Scba1Uan Cabot his Son, Venctíans, ,vertfent 011t ef Eng– lanci by Hem·y VII. Thtje, After their l<et11rn, gave an Acrotm.t and Dr•r,ght offome NorthWcít P.irts of Amenca,and bro11gbt four of the Nalives h4ck with them. A. D. 15 H· Sir Hugh Willoughby rvent 011t to dij°&over a North Eaft Pa_(Jtige, ana jAil'á tt– hove 160 Ltttgr1es North Eaftcrly from Seynam,. ivhich lies tn 70 deg. North Lat. 'Tú VtrJ proba– ble he landed on Nova ZcmbJa and Grcculand, from whenee the Cold and lee fore'd hím to rctun, ·more So11therly, ti!/ he cameto Arzina, " River in Lapland, 1vhere the next Spring that g.. tat ÍI-Ílln ,vith al/.his C01npany rvtre found frozen to Death in thc.Ship. This 1ear the Ruffia Company bega;, to rn,orporate. A. D. 15 56. Stephcn Burrows fearcbing a Paffage by the Nonh Eafr to the Indies, J ait'd to 80 deg. 7 min. and then,e to Nova Zcmbla, ha– ví1Jo been in :ti! likelihood 11pon Grccnland, by the dcfd.ite Land, tht b/11e lee, aJtd great 1111mber of vario,u Fowls which he mentions. .About this time the Ruília Company tMl ejla– bLi{lid, ,ndfent 'l'early Ships and F.té 'lors, and pre– fmtly after Ambaffadorsji-om R¿,een Elizabeth. A. O. 1576, a 577, 1578. Sir Martín Forbi!hc1· mde t'1reefever11/ J/oyage.s to find ot,t :t North \Vefi P.".!Jag e,in whi&h he made jever,tl nov Difcoveries of gre•t Strcights, Bays, Ulands 11nd Capes, M we/1 :is L:ind on bothfides, to a/L ,rhi&h he gave 1Vttmes. }Ju 1.\lm hrour,ht homet,reat flore tJj glitteringMarcliafites,11 1 hhhthe London Gold- fmiths