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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09429	A true discourse of the late voyages of discouerie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the Northvveast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher Generall deuided into three bookes. In the first wherof is shewed, his first voyage ... Also, there are annexed certayne reasons, to proue all partes of the worlde habitable, with a generall mappe adioyned. In the second, is set out his second voyage ... In the thirde, is declared the strange fortunes which hapned in the third voyage ... VVith a particular card therevnto adioyned of Meta Incognita ...	Best, George, d. 1584.	1578 (1578)	STC 1972; ESTC S104566	113,756	182

but touched with the foresaid Magnes playing Aequilibra vpō some Piramid or point receyueth such vertue that it produceth like effect Whervnto if wood or paper in circular forme deuided into .32 equall parts be handsomely compacted it will distinguishe and poynte out all parts of the Horizon and direct into all coasts of the worlde and that onely by the in●luent Spirite of the two principall pointes respecting euer North and South This excellent propertie and benefite of the Lodestone I the rather remember at large bycause some Seamen whiche knowe this rare and miraculous effecte as well as I doe not sufficiently admire the same bycause it is now so commonlye knowen and yet indéede is to be preferred before all pretious stones in the worlde whiche only tend to ornament and haue no other vertue whereas this serueth to so necessarie vse The vertue of this stone as it is not long since it was first found so in these dayes it is like to receiue his perfection concerning his Northeasting and Northwesting to be brought in rule particularly in this noble voyage of our worthy Captain Martine Frobisher who as you shall after vnderstande in the discourse hath diligentlye obserued the variation of the Néedle And suche obseruations of skilfull Pylots is the onelye waye to bring it in rule for it passeth the reach of naturall Philosophy The making and pricking of Cardes the shifting of Sunne and Moone the vse of the compasse the houre glasse for obseruing time instrumentes of Astronomie to take Longitudes and Latitudes of Countreys and many other helps are so commonly knowen of euery Mariner now adayes that he that hathe bin twi●● at Sea is ashamed to come home if he be not able to ●ender accompte of all these particularities By whiche skill in Nauigation is brought to passe that the people of Europe can as easilye and farre more easilier make long voyages by Sea than by lande whereby hathe come to passe that within the memorie of man within these foure score yeares there hathe béene moe newe Countries and regions discouered than in fiue thousande yeares before yea more than halfe the worlde hathe béene discouered by men that are yet or might very well for their age be aliue When I name the world in this sense I meane the vppermoste face an● Superficies of the Earth and Sea which vnite togither make one Globe or Sphere And this face of the Earth whiche Almightie God hath giuen man as most conuenient place to inhabite in thorowe the negligence of man hathe vntill of late dayes layne so hidde and vnknowne that he hathe loste the fruition and benefit of more than halfe the earth A maruellous thing that man who hath always abhorred so muche thraldome and restrainte and so gréedily desired libertie coulde be contented so many thousande yeres to be shut vp in so narrow bounds For it is to be thought that onely such Countries in times paste haue bin known as either did bounde and hang togither or else were separated by very narrow Seas as are Europa Affrica Asia out of which from either to other a man maye trauaile by lande or else shal finde in some places very narrow Seas separating them and so mighte saile from the one to the other onelye by lande markes wythoute the Arte of Nauigation bycause the one was wythin a ken of the other For euen the greate strength and stoutnesse of Hercules himselfe whē out of Graecia Westward he had trauelled conquered al the Regions and Countries comming to the straight betwéene Spaine and Barbarie made accompte to haue béene at the Weast ende of the worlde and therefore there erected two Pillers as a perpetual monument of his f●●e whiche to this daye are called Herculeae Columnae the P●ll●●s of Hercules the one standing in Spaine of Europe the other in Affrica and called the straight Fretum Herculeum and nowe commonlye is named the straightes of Mal●ga or Gibraltar And hauing come so farre Westward contēted himselfe and said Non plus vltra no further Likewise Alexander Magnus out of Macedonia in Greece passing thorow Armenia Persia and India comming to the great Riuer Ganges conqueryng all these Countr●es ●althoughe he was perswaded that Asia extended somewhat further into the East and Northeast yet knowing them not to be verye greate Countries and thinking them to be of small moment erected there certaine Aultars whi●he are yet called Arae Alexandrinae as beyond which no man else in those dayes had passed or néede to passe more Eastwarde and this was accompted as it were a ●ounder of the Easte side of the worlde althoughe indéede Asia doeth extende further .20 degrées and is enuironed with M●re Eo●m and the straight Anian which our Captaine Frobisher pretendeth to finde out Touching the South parts of the world towards Affrica Ptolomeus King of Aegipt a famous Cosmographer who was more sollicite and curious in describing al the face of the Earth than any King before him or after excepte of late dayes deliuered in plat described knowen only 16. degrées beyond the Equinoctiall to the Southwardes or pole Antartique and that bounder was called Montes Lunae out of whiche the greate riuer Nilus is supposed to haue his beginning spring And as for the known land on the North parts of the world Thyle being one of the Ilands of Orcades more probably than Iseland was so long pronounced and continued Vltima that it was estéemed a greate erroure for anye man to imagine anye lande more North than that Thus haue I briefly named the foure principall bounders of the worlde whiche was onely known from the beginning of the worlde as some thinke vntill within these 80. last yeres That is the straights of Gibraltar or Malega Weastward The East part of Asia beyond Arae Al●xandrinae Eastwarde Vltima Thyle by Scot●ande Northward .16 Grades beyōd the Equinoctiall Southward But these 16. degrées of South latitude are to be vnderstoode only in the continent of Affrica whiche extendeth not passyng .70 degrées in longitude Therefore whatsoeuer Countries or Regions haue since béene discouered and knowne beyonde 180. degrées in longitude .60 degrées in North latitude and 16. degrees in South latitude all the commendation honour renoume glorie and fame therof must be attributed to the Englishmen Spaniardes Portingales Frenchmenne and Italians whose valiaunt courage and high mindes be suche that either they alreadye haue or shortly will dyscouer and searche out euery narrowe corner of the world By these mens valours and industries the knowne Regions of the worlde whiche before were diuided into thrée partes that is Europa Aff●ica and Asia are now made sixe by addition of other thrée For like as the whole Massie frame of the world being firste diuided into two principall regions the one Elementall the other Heauenly the Elementall containeth foure partes that is the foure Elements the Earth the Water the Ayre and the Fyre the Heauenly Region although one

yet for diuersitie of motion may be compted two that is Primum Mobile mouing onelye vppon the poles Articke and Antarticke and all the reste of Orbes and Planets mouing vppon the poales of the Zodiacke are by this difference of motion imagined two wherby ariseth the number of sixe substanciall partes of the world that is the foure Elements and the two varieti●s of Orbes So likewise the inferiour world I meane the Superficies of the Earth is also diuided into sixe partes that is Europa Affrica Asia Terra Septentrionalis America Terra Austrialis whose bounders bycause this diuision séemeth somewhat strange I thought good for the more particularitie here briefly to repeate The chiefe bounders of the principall parts of the vvorld EVropa is bounded on the Weast side with oure Weaste Ocean on the South side wyth Mare Mediter●aneum on the East with Mare Aegeum Pontus Euxinus and the riuer Tanais folowing the Meridian thereof Northwarde On the North side it was thoughte sometime to be bounded with Ilandes Hebrides Orcades and Hyperbore● montes in Sarmatia of Europe But nowe by the nauigation of the Englishemen the boundes are extended vnto that Sea whiche compasseth Norway Laplande and Moscouia Affrica is bounded Westwarde with the Sea Atlanticum Southward with the South Ocean passing by Cape d'buona Speranza Eastwarde with the red Sea and Northwarde by the Sea Mediterraneum Asia is bounded on the South side with the South Ocean on the Easte side with Mare Eoum and the straighte Anian on the North side with the Scithian Sea on the Weaste side with the Meridian of the riuer Tana●● pa●te of the Sea Mediterraeneum as Pontus Euxinus Mare Egeum Sinus Issicus and the red Sea. Terra Septentrionalis is diuided from Asia by the Scythian Sea from Europe by the North Sea aboute Iseland called in times past Mare Congela●um the frosen Sea and frō America is deuided by Frobishers straits It lyeth rounde about the Pole Artike is included by a Paralell passing aboute .70 degrées in North latitude as it is also more at large described in Mercators and Ortelius vniuersall Mappes This parte of the world hath béene most or onely made knowen by the Englishmens industrie For as Mercator mentioneth out of a probable Author there was a Frier of Oxforde a greate Mathmatician who himselfe went ver●● farre North aboue .200 yeares agoe and with an Astrolabe described almoste all the lande aboute the Pole f●●ding it diuided into foure partes or Ilandes by foure g●eate gutters indrafts or channels running violently a●d deliuering themselues into a mostrous receptacle and swallowing sincke with suche a violent force and currant that a Shippe beyng entred neuer so little within one of t●ese foure indraftes c●nnot be holden backe by the force of any great winde but runneth in headlong by that déepe sw●ll●wing sincke into the bowels of the earth Hée report●th that th● Southweast parte of that lande is a fruitfull and a holesome soyle The Northeast part in respect of England is inhabited with a people called Pygmaei whyche are not at the vttermoste aboue foure foote highe One of these foure greate monstrous gulfes wy●h hys violent raging course followeth the Meridi●n of the fortunate Ilandes a●d receiueth the Ocean with th●ée mouths and is frosen o●er thrée moneths in the yeare and is .37 leagues in b●●adth the ne●te Eastwarde beyonde the Ilande Vag●ts is 〈…〉 degrees in longitude and receyueth the East Ocean w●th ●●ue months and being narrowe and swifte is neuer frosen The third is at 19● degrées in longitude ●●ceiu●th the East Oceā with ninetéen receits The fourth is at ●●● degrées in longitude Al these indraftes raging channels runne directly towards a point vnder the Pole where is also said to be a monstrous gret Mountain of wōderful gret height about .35 leagues in cōpasse at the foot Gui●●elmus Postellus saith that here vnder and aboute the Pole is beste habitation for man and that they euer haue continuall daye and know not what night or darkenesse meaneth But this séemeth contrary to the principles of the Sphere whyche alloweth well that they shoulde sée the Sunne halfe a yeare togither without any night During the time of his being in the North signes from the one Equinoctium t● the other yet that in the other halfe they shold haue continuall night without any day But I thinke Postellus being a good Astronomer doubted noth●ng of y reason of the sphere but meaneth that for their great twiligh●s the high swelling of the erth the high moūtaine vnder the Pole they haue continuall light but hereof you shal heare more ●t large hereafter in this treatise whē I speake of the ●ep●rature of the North Regions This so particular a description of the land countries lying about the Pole argueth that this Oxford Frier tooke great pains ther●in and ●ndur●th gre●t probabilitie likelihood of the t●uth therof bicau●● he ob●●●ued so diligently by measure the bredth of the in●raf●● w●●t time and how long they co●t●nued frosen with how ●an●e mouths or receipts euery one of them receiued the Ocean Upō the bounds descriptiō of this part of the erth I haue the lōger staid bicause I find it discouered only by the English nation And although the greatest part herof was ma●e knowen .200 odde yeres past yet some bounders thereof were described set out by the trauel of S. Hugh Wi●●oby ●night an Englishman who ventured lost his life in the cause so died an honorable death with him Ric. Chancelor chiefe Pilot in that voyage in An. 1554. who discouered founde out the Norway Lapland c. conioyned not to Groneland or any part of the Northern regions as one firme continent but that by sea a man might trauel to the country of M●sc●u●a a gret way more Estward as far as the gret riuer Obby ●lso oure worthy General Ca. Frobisher in his .3 last voiages w●er of we are briefly to entreat in these .3 books hath discouered described a gret part of the Southwest boūds therof meneth God willing not only to describe the one halfe therof in going to Cataia by the Northwest but also to put in tria●● whether he may return into Englād by the Northeast so also to discrybe the other pa●t which to do is one of the waightiest matters of the world a thing that wil cause other Princes to admire the fortunate state the gret valor of the English natiō But to retourne againe to the bounding of the other parts of the worlde America an Ilande is included on the East side with the Sea Antartique On the Weast side with Mare del Sur or Mare P●cificum On the South side it is bounded wyth the straight of M●gellanus and on the North with Frobishers straights Terra A●strali● séemeth to be a great firme land lying vnder and aboute the South pole being in many