An account of several late voyages and discoveries

. óf á Notth-Éaft Paf{age. t 4-7. Beúdes théfe Arguments, 1had fome grourided u~n Reafori and Nature, which fecm'd to be liftant in th~ Dcfign of the Attempt; fuppofing the afore(aid Argumcnts to be true, and there being no Land nor Ice in the way as an Obfi:ade ro· hirider it. . . The firfi: was, That heing rieiir thc Nórth-Pole in thé Summcr time, it might oe as warm as un– der che Artiék ór Antartick Cfrcle; or warmer than with us iri tbc Wintcr time; for under the Polc itfdt~ iti· Jrmc; thc Sun bcing 2 3 Dcgl·ees high, and h~virig no Dcprefliort towards the Ho~ rizon, but always fwimming abot,t at the fame eight,. might illuminate that Pare of thc Hemi.;; phere with more Heat thari it docs ours in ,vin..: et, when he is no more than 1 5 Dcgrecs high,. hcn he is at the highcft, that is on the Mcri... ian, and 11.ot more tlun eight Hótus above thc orizon; or that- it might be as hot as any Place ear cither Polar Circlc, hec~mfc therc the Suri th a Declination towards the Horizon ; and fo cAtmofphere hath almonas much time to cool;' · ir hath to hc~t, which, undcr the Polc, fhould ve no lntcrmiffion. And one Argumcnt to fa.;;' 1 ur this Opinion, was the Rclation of moft l'eenlaml Tradcrs, who affirm, That the farthcr 10 orth thcy go on the Coaíl of that Land,: ey meet with more green Herbs and Grafs,. n thcy do"to·thc Southward, and confcqucnt~ more Deet. Thc fecon:d wa.s (that which I moft felr.d) ich:was foggy-"\V cathct, wl1idi I did imagine, it ihou1d\happc'n, it could not at the famc cfi L 2 time .• 1