An account of several late voyages and discoveries

A S1tpplement to --·--- .. --- j O J-1¡\[ M A 1 E'N's Ijlaml. J• . Oh:, ]'.J;1ytn's rff :md,, fo called from thc · t,J:nnc of thc fidt Difcovcrer , (as thc n,,:r.l, pretend) fcems by thc Eno liJ'i:1 to be calle([ Hope-ljlAná, or it not, I 0 know noc whethcr thc E11glifb have becn upen 1t. le focms not to he of any grcat Conlcquc~ce, ali that is fpokcn of it bcing that it cxtends in ]ength fr<:>m South-wcít to North-cafr. Thc farther it fl10ots out in lcngth, the more contraétcd and narrow,:r it grows in grows in :,rcadth ; fu that in tbc middlc the di(lancc is very fmall bctwccn both Shorc~. Jkfore the \Vhalc-fifhing was removed to Greenl:111d, in thc Summer-time this lfland wa~ much frcquentcd by the Seamen, whom Tradc invitcd thithcr ; a.nd the (fland was WfiJI known to moti: oí thc Northcrn J\dvcn– turcrs of E.11rope ; but fiucc the \Vhalcs have clcfertcd thcfc Shore,¡, and have removed thcil' Sca-quartcrl; farther to the North, rhc Scamcn and Fifhcrmen have bcen forccd to tollow thcir 1'rcv to Greml.1nd, For it fecms the \Vhal~ • cithcr wcary of thc Pla;;e , or fc11fib!c of th<.:1 r own <langcr. do ofo:n changc thcir Harbo~rs. In thc S¡>ring ~.imc \Vllt~ru