An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to tl,e Nortf,.Eafl VoJagu. 199 C Allcd alfo GroA11laml, Groin/And, and more anciently Engron,IAml, lics ( as Ulan– ders fay) likc a Half.moon about thc North of tbeir Countrcy, at the diftancc of four l>ays failing~ But it fccms to lyc not fo much Eaft, but rathel' North of Americ11. From C•pe F11re,..ell, in 60 deg. 30 mio. on thc South, it is unknown to how many de– grccs in the Nonh. The Eafr ancl Wcft are cncompafs'd by two great Occans, bur at what degrces of Longitude is not ycr d1fcovcrcd. Only Mr. fotherby found it ncar the Coafi of Gronelod, in 7 1 dcg. and thc Souch of Gnenland to be . above two hun– dred Lcagues. lt is íaid to ha ve bcen difcovcrcd füft by a Norwrgi~n Gentleman, whofe Name wa¡ Eric J{otcop, or Rettd lle.id; who having com– mittcd a Murder in Ijel.má, to fave his Life, rcfolvcd to advencure to another Country, whcreof he had hcard fome obfcure .ffying Re– pons. He fucccedcd fo wcll,that he arrived in fafe Harbour called S.tn~ flaj,n, Iying bctwcen two Mountainws l'romontorics; the one O 4 upon