Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

tained by the abundance of water, waxing more shallow and shelving towards the end, as we find it doth, by experience, in the Frozen Sea, towards the e

assage by the north-east cannot be, as the often experiences had of all the south part of it showeth, seeing that some of the inhabitants of this cold climate, whose summer is to them an extreme winter

ship tackling, that no mariner can either hoist or strike them-as our experience, far nearer the south t

s and fogs so near the Pole, that no man can well s

which things must of force have been their destruction, altho

e Persian Gulf, Sinus Bodicus, the Thames, and all other known havens or rivers in any part of the world, and each of them opening but on one part to the main sea, do likewise receive their increase upon the flood the same way, and no

m the main sea, as in all those above-mentioned, the less and less the tides rise and fall. The like wh

, seeing everything naturally engendereth his like, and then must it be like salt throughout, as all the seas are in such like climate and elevation. And therefore it seemeth that this nor

dness of the earth in the bottom, the sea there being but of small depth, whereby the one accidental coldness doth meet with the other; and the sun, not having his reflection so near the Pole, but at very blunt angles, it ca

h cannot be but through the long continue of the sun above their horizon, and by that time the summer would be so far spent, and so great darkness an

hip can sail in those seas, seeing our fishers of Iceland and Newfoundland are subject to danger thr

en it should cut off Ciremissi and Turbi, Tartarii, with Vzesucani, Chisani, and others from the continent o

r traffic, because no ship of great burden can navigate in so shallow a sea, and ships of small burd