An account of several late voyages and discoveries

of a Nortb:-Eaft P"1[age. 143 The fourth that attcmptcd it was William Bar– unr, a well Experienccd Navig:itor and Artift, frnt out of Holland by Prince Maurice in the )'car 1606. He faikd ínt,) the ,vayg~ltcs, but l,cing cntred,_he found thc famc Incumhrancc Jith Ice that Pett and Jackman had done beforc ; fu t1fting of thc; ·,Vater, and findin" of it frcfü .. tbich ncithcr Bttrrough1,Pett, nor jackman, had &ifr.:rvcd ; he returncd without any hope or pro- l b3bility of a P:iffage that way ; but this not dif– m1raging him, he rcfolvcd a fr:cond Advcnturc 10 che Nonhw.ird of No,vrz Zembla, to f ce what miaht be performcd that way. So in thc Year 1607, he kt forward, :md ar..; ril·ed on the Coaíl: of Nova Zembla, in thc Lar4 of 73, wherc he mct with Ice; and fo coaftcd lheShorc till he c1me to the L1t. of 76, whcre he could gct no farther, and by the Ice was thcre drivcn on Shore, and his Ship brokc in picccs by it, :md he confined to winter thcrc, wh·.: re thcy ~lcndured the grcatcft Extrcmity of Cold that C\/Cr Mortals did ; the Wintcr bcing paíl:, thcy ith difficulty, in tW'o Boats, got to Cola in Lap-– ul; but bcforc thcir Arrival therc, Wzllim11 Barrant dycd, to thc grcat.gricf of all his Com... my. The ncxt that attcmptcd it, was that famous ifcovcrcr of our own Nation Mr. H~my fhu!fim., thc Yclr 161 o. tut he bcing difücartnc<l by eVoyage of Ban·am, at!.emptcd but lirtk. So the Thought of a PJ{fagc by th1; r--;or::h-Eaíl: as wholly laid afidc, till of late within this e.ir or two fome Novel A,cid::nts h.;.prcning~ thc