An account of several late voyages and discoveries

1 4 6 A fio)•age for the Difcovery 1ikc that of the Bay of Bfcay. Mr. Goulden be· ing not fatisfy'd with the bareRclation, they pro. duc'd him f-our Jo\lrnals out of the two Ships whkh tdlify'd thc fame, and thatthey all agrecd within 4 min. onc of thc other. Thc tixth Inducement that made me bcfüvc ~hcrc WJS a Paífagc., was a Relation from thc Cune Captain Gou[dcn, which w.is. , That all the Drifr-\Vood tJ1at thcy found at G reenland, w c1tcn with a Sea-·\vonn to thc very Heart, whic if fo, ir nmfi of Ncccffity come out of ah Clim.1tc; for,Experiencc fhewcth, that the,Vor , bitcth in no cold Country, thereforc it coul 1.1~t be fuppos' d that it camc from any oth (:ounrry than Jadzo, Japan, or fome 1 thcreabout. ·Thc fcvcnth Argmncnt was anorhcr Narrati printed in thc 'Tranjizéfionr of rwo Ships, of la tbat had attemptcd the Paífagc ., fail' d 3 Leagues to the Eaíl:w~ rd of Nf/Vn Zcmbla, a had aftcr profccuted tüe Voyage, had thcre a Differcncc :irofc betwixt the U ndertakcrs a ihc ·Eaft-ludia Company, againft whofo Int it was to foffcr it to be found out ; fo thcy ing ~i Body, and more powcrful than thc otb (uppn:fJ' d. it. Thcic ícvcn werc the main Arguments, tho had man y more, that converted me into thc nion of thcrc being a Poffibility of a Pa{fage rhe North,vard of N<n:a Zembla, to Cbma' 'Jo.pan ; thcfc being, as i foppos'd, oras :my would have done, jf he lud well confidcr'd th to be Mattcr of Falt, and no Fablcs. Bcfi