An account of several late voyages and discoveries

1 48 A Poyage f or t~t Di(coruery tiir.c blow hard; bccaufc it is ufu:il i~ all othcr 1 Climates, whcn Wind happeneth,.to diipc1fc thc fog; fo that if it. fuould f~. hap.~cn, on:; might Jic by', or makc ltttle way ull Wmd camc, that onc might fce b.~fQrc_ them~. Thc third was the Solut1on of a Douh, that moft .Mcn had fan~y' d,. whkh was.; T!iat if onc ca.me nc:.tr the Pole, thc Septcntrial Dcclination of thc Ncedle of thc Compafs fhould be quite rakcn away,. which would of neceffity follow, if thc Pole of the 'World, and the Polc of thc Magnct W'cre ali onc, which, 1 am certain, is not, but is pbc'd fo far off, that onc might go undu thc Polc of thc World, if Land or Ice did not hindcr ; with this Suppofttion, that onc muft know whcrc thc Pole Magnctical is, to allow thc Yariation that will therc happcn. 1-faving confider'd all thefc Argmnents lnd Rcafons, with many more l m~t wich; which will be too tedious to relate, and thc Poflibilicy of a Paffagc being n0w imprintcd in my Mind and lnclin~ttion, I do intend to íhcw thc Rcafon in íhort, that induc'd me to undcrtakc thc fai 1 Voy. .1.gc . ·· . . . The firft was,. Tliat thc King, whom God pre fervc, fhould reap the Honour and Glory rhcrc ot: and his_Subjeéts thc Profit. . · Secondly, Thcrc bcing no Aétio~s withinth Hemifphcrc of his Majcfiy's Dominions wherc· any Vacancy was., but all bcing füpply'd, 1 chofi rather than to be idle, to apply myfelf to ff I\1ajcfty for thc Profecution of thc Dcfign ; a e bdng advis'd to it by a grcat m~ny _of thc be Me