An account of several late voyages and discoveries
x1v The Incrodud:ion. Nova Anglia. The 1\T.1.th• es o/ten rep,ir'd to .kim in their Canoes, brú?oing 11,irh rhem Stag-snm, n,J,ite Harts,fo,a!/ Cod, dryC,1p!i1J; ftver.1/ Copper Oars. M11f'cles, &e In hh' retr,rn 011t of t·he Frctum Davis ((ee our l'ha,t of the 1Vorth,m Re._~ions) he formd marvelloru flore of Sea Fo,vl .snáCoJ, Woods of Pine-trets, Spruce, Eláer, En 1 e or ]cia,, WtthJ, Bireh, Geefe, Dttd:.r, Blteck-Birás, Thmjh, Jayes, Partridge, l'he.ijAnt, &c. black P11mi&e-:.flones, and Salt, kern d NPOIJ the Rocks, rvhite 11nd glitttring; Vni&orn 1111d other U'hi1lu. See more tif" D.1vis i11 our S11ppleme11t ,tt the e,,d of this Volt11,1e. A, D. 1594, t ~95, 1596, William Bareocs, Dutchman made J j,verttl //O]agts to the North E ~/1 "' t~e t'harge of the United .Provinces,in the lafl of which ht rras ,ompe/J~d to JPinttr in Neva Zcmbla, about 75 dt't, of N,rth L•t. 111 the/e i'Ó'J.1ges they d.ifaover'J. Bear or Cherry Hland, .sná went t1pon Greenland. Thtp Dutch N4vi– g•tions were w, _itten by Gcrart de Veer, a11d ,on– taing,eat 't!4riety of e«rio11s Ubjervillions,to svhich },1, lioyle 011,ns himfelf 11111,h behoiden, in the ,0111- pofing hiJ HijlorJ of C.old. They eonvers'tl. with, amJ áeforib'd the Samoycds, coa{l,a Nova Zem– bla,givi»g JV4111es to(t'Veral Poinrs, Cap,s. BaJS; {fl,1,,d.1, &c. The; dijéov,r'á iht bcrnade Goofc or Clakis (,ttir.g upon their Eggs, tmdtr the 80th deg. North L.it. 11'tJ g,ive gtod dejcriptions of rhe lrhAles, }.,J~rfes, Bird1, &c. ,1nd relate Phre– nomena ofCold (dt1rmg their me!ttncho{y 11,·inter .AbqJt there) wi1h l11ge111,itJ and J11dgment. Ann.
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