An account of several late voyages and discoveries

The l11trodu8ion, eNorth-WcO: Paífage,heing bothpe,f.,a,adedthcre– to hJ the {betching cf the L 10d, h1 the diílra• ionand reverfion of h1lfTides, bJ th~ motion f the Ice, rdc. hejidu the Fog1, Sno'tfl, Frojls. 1111ft a11rls of Ice, a11d the 11''eather, are infoperable• .Mr. Witfen in hi, Let.ter to tht l\.oyal Societyi nno 1691. writes ag,ai»ft thc North· Eaft Paífage · Japan: He retrafJs his former-Opinion of 111alit1g ova Zembh join 11pon the Continent with Tar– ry, havi•g ftitce been heller inform"d. He lhlnl{, e Tartarian Points "'"J r,,n verJ flt'f North, and rhaps reach to America. Capt ain Wood ft111ciu, ,, Nova Zembla and Greenland ge the fome ontinent. 1/thefe Cot1jefJ11re1 ofCaptain James, ptitin Wood, and Mr. Whitfen, co11cerm11g thé . orth-Eaft, and North-Weft Palfagcs 'º 1/Je . fi•lndies fho11ld 1101 be true, ¡el tht di}Jic11ltie1 o/ . i/ing thofe wa1s -a,011/d be in'lli11cihle. B11t 110~ it fee1111 co11vc11ienl to come to tie pre• ent Work, a11d to give 11n acco1111t JPhitt i, cq11• aitld therein. The Authors are Fo11r, viz. Sir ohn Nuborough, Captain Janfen Tafman, Cap· ai,, Wood~ 411cJ Fredrkk Marten. l. .Sir John Narborough is fa wcll i110ff'n in ngl.md , ancl fa f,1111mu bc7ond thc Se,u, that 1 eed fo! · nothing o.f .bis great Abilitie,. H;, pyage into the South-Sea is menti,:m·d be/ore. · H. Captain Abe) Janfen T3(man's Voyage fto111 atavia in ,,e UJ.md of Java, to the Somh Terra ncogn~t:\ is the m()rc tonfidcrahle, in that 'ti.t the ifco,•ery of" ~ew World, not Jel k.,nown to the ngtHb. ·n, . .. XXVII