An account of several late voyages and discoveries

o[ a North-E.aH-Paffege~ 149 -~krchants of t~c Gity of London ; whcrc, afrer divcrs Co1.~fuJta~ions with them, and thc Rea... fons :111d Argm:nems bcforc-mcntion· d being de.. batcd, ic w.1s by m:iny thought Praéticablc, and by 1Ílorc thougfit Pro.fitablc to thc Nation: Thc P.trticubrs to rcl:itc., would fwell into a coníidc– rabk Volumc. · Thc chird Reafon was peculiar to myfdf, tho' .wlieii knoW!l, to the Ufc and B~nefit of all Man– kind; which WJ.S, That having for fome y cars P3~ fra,_1~'-~ a.~ ijypothcíis of the :ivfotion of thc rwo M.ignetical Polcs, for two fuch thcrc b~ ; ~nd br d1c O~fcrvations of all, or mofi chat writ o tQat Subjeét, with my own Obfrrv~ui0n_, 3nd co!Uy Expcrimcnt upon a grcac m~ny Plac.:s of thc Sllperficies of thc Tcrrdl:ri:d Globc; I having found o:ut thc~r Motion ver¡ n'?.ar, and thm:by thc InclinatiQn of che M:tgn"..'.ticaJ Nc:r..'. cllc undcr the Horizon, io ali Latirndcs, and all Longitudes; and Y:1ri~uion of thc Comp:1fs; nuy be found in any Place in the \Vorld, withnuc Affiílancc of any other Luminar>'· Une not bc– ing fo fully fatisfy'd as i might be, íf I could come fo m~ar the Poleas WJS fi.1ppos'd, it prom– tcd my Inclination, as .far as any other Argu- 1r.nt v.rhatcvcr, to attcrppt this Voyagc. .. So, having all thcCc Rcafons that thcn: was :t. .ilfage, and Reafons fqr n1e to undcrtake it, I dvanc' d. The firíl: Step to it w~ts, 1drew a Pol.ir r;mght, wherein I trac'd :ill rhoi~ Navit:itors !11t had attcmpced thc North--~;1íl', whicl: I pre- 1 cnrcd to his M:tjdl:v and R0) 7 3.l Highnds, and J) .. • pply'd myfdf to thcm wirh thc Hcai<.ms a~c~re- L 3 f.ud ;