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A19942	The vvorldes hydrographical discription Wherein is proued not onely by aucthoritie of writers, but also by late experience of trauellers and reasons of substantiall probabilitie. that the worlde in all his zones clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited, and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable ... whereby appeares that from England there is a short and speedie passage into the South Seas, to China, Molucca, Phillipina, and India, by northely nauigation ... Published by I. Dauis of Sandrudg by Dartmouth in the countie of Deuon. Gentleman. Anno 1595. May 27.	Davis, John, 1550?-1605.	1595 (1595)	STC 6372; ESTC S105205	22,123	50

Seamans Secreats And therfore this as the rest breadeth no hinderance to this most commodious discouery What benefits would growe vnto England● by this passage being discouered THe benifits which may grow by this discouery are copious and of two sorts a benifit spirituall and a benifit corporall Both which sith by the lawes of God and nature we are bound to regard yet principally we are admonished first to seeke the kingdome of God and the righteousnes thereof and all thinges shall be giuen vnto vs. And therfore in seeking the kingdome of God we are not onely tied to the depe search of Gods sacrid word and to liue within the perfect lymits of christianity but also by al meanes we are bound to multiply and increase the flocke of the faithfull Which by this discouery wilbe most aboundantly perfourmed to the preseruation of many thousands which now most miserably are couered vnder the lothsome vayle of ignorance neither can we in any sort doubt of their recouery by this passage discouered Gods prouidence therin being considered who most mercifully sayth by the mouth of his prophet Esaias 66. I will come to gather all people and tongues then shall they come and see my glory of them that shall be saued I will send some to the gētils in the sea theyls far of that haue not heard speak of me and haue not sene my glory shall preach my peace among the Gentiles And in his 65. Chapter he farther sayth They seeke me that hitherto haue not asked for me they find me that hitherto haue not sought me And againe chapter 49. I wil make waies vpon all my mountains and my footpathes shall be exalted and behold these shall come from farre some from the North and West some from the land of Symis which is in the South Then sith it is so appointed that there shalbe one shepheard and one flocke what hindreth vs of England being by Gods mercy for the same purpose at this present most apely prepared not to attempt that which God himselfe hath appointed to be performed ther is no doubt but that wee of England are this saued people by the eternal infallible presence of y e lord predestinated to be sent vnto these Gentiles in the sea to those ylls and famous kingdoms ther to preach the peace of the Lorde for are not we onely set vpon mount Sion to giue light to all the rest of the world haue not we the true handmayd of the Lord to rule vs vnto whom the eternall maiestie of God hath reueled his truth and supreme power of excellencye by whom then shall the truth be preached but by them vnto whom the truth is reueled it is onely we therefore that must be these shining messengers of the Lord and none but we for as the prophet sayth O how beutifull are the feet of the messenger that bringeth the message from the mountayne that proclameth peace that bringeth the good tidings and preacheth health and sayth to Sion thy God is king so that hereby the spirituall benefit arising by this discouery is most apparant for which if there were no other cause wee are all bound to labour with purse and minde for the discouery of this notable passage And nowe as touching the corporall and worldly benifits which will thereby arise our owne late experience leadeth vs to the full knowledge thereof For as by the communitie of trade groweth the mightines of riches so by the kinde and guide of such tradinges may growe the multiplication of such benefits with assurance how the same may in the best sort be continued In the consideratiō wherof it is first to bee regarded with what commodities our owne country aboundeth either naturall or artificiall what quantity may be spared and wher the same may with greatest aduantage be vented And in the sale or forrayne passage therof wee must respect what commodities either naturall or artificiall our country is depriued of and where the same may with the easiest rate be gained and how in his best nature vnto vs returned all which by this passage shall be vnto vs most plentifully effected and not onely that but this also which is most to ●e regarded that in our thus trading wee shall by no meanes inrich the next adioyning states vnto vs for ri●ches bread dread and pouertie increaseth feare but here I cease fering to offend yet it is a qu●stion whether it were better by an easy rate to bent our commodities far of or by a more plentifull gayne to passe them to our neerer neighbours and those therby more inriched then our selfes the premises considered wee finde our country to abound with woll and wollen cloth with lead tin copper and yron matters of great moment wee also knowe our soyle to be fertill would if trad did so permit haue equal imploiment with any our neighbours in linnen cloth ●ustians seys grograms or any other forraine artificiall commodities besides the excellent labours of the artsmen either in metallyne mechanicall faculties or other artificiall ornamentes whereof India is well knowne to receiue all that Europa can afford rating our commodities in the highest esteeme of valewe which by this passage is speedily perfourmed and then none of these should lie dead vpon our handes as now they doe neither should we bee then ignorant as now we are in many excellent practises into which by trade wee shoulde bee drawne And by the same passage in this ample vent we should also at the first hand receiue all Indian commodities both naturall and artificial in a far greter measure by an easier rate and in better condition then nowe they are by many exchaunges brought vnto vs then woul● all nations of Europe repayre vnto Englan● not onely for these forraine merchandizes by reason of their plenty perfection and easy rates but also to passe away that which God in nature hath bestowed vpon them and their countrie whereby her maiestie and her highnes successors for euer should be monarks of the earth and commaunders of the Seas through the aboundance of trade her coustomes would bee mightily augmented her state highly inriched and her force of shipping greatly aduanced as that thereby shee should be to all nations moste dredful and we her subiects through imploimēt should imbrace aboundance be clothed with plēty The glory wherof would be a deadly horrer to her aduersaries increase frindly loue with al procure her maiestie stately and perpetuall peace for it is no small aduantage y ● ariseth to a state by the mightines of trade being by necessity ●inked to no other nation the same also beeing in commodities of the highest esteeme as gold siluer stones of price Iuells pearles spice drugs silkes raw and wrought velluetts cloth of gold beside many other commodities with vs of rare and high esteeme whereof as yet our countrie is by nature depriued al which India doth yeld at reasonable rates in great aboundance receiuing ours in the highest esteeme so that hereby plenty retourning by trade abroade and no smale quantity prouided by industry at home all want then banished in the aboundance of her maiesties royalty so through dred in glory peace and loue her maiesty should be the commaunding light of the world and we her subiects the stars of wonder to al nations of the earth Al which y e premises considered it is impossible that any true English hart should be staied from willing contribution to the performance of this so excellent a discouery the Lords and subiectes spirituall for the sole publication of Gods glorious gospell And the Lords and and subiectes temporal for the renowne of their prince and glory of their nation should be thervnto most vehemently affected Which when it shall so please God in the mightines of his mercy I beseech him to effect Amen FINIS

we be thus blinded seeing our enemies to posses the fruites of our blessednes and yet will not perceiue the same But I hope the eternall maiestie of God the sole disposer of all thinges will also make this to appeare in his good time Cornelius Nepos recyteth that when Quintus Metellus Caesar was proconsull for the Romanes in Fraunce the king of Sweuia gaue him certayne Indians which sayling out of India for merchandize were by tempest driuen vpon the coastes of Germany a matter very strange that Indians in the fury of stormes should ariue vpon that coast it resteth nowe carefully to consider by what winde they were so driuen if they had beene of any parte of Africa how could they escape the ylls of cape Verd or the ylles of Canaria the coastes of Spayne Fraunce Ireland or England to ariue as they did but it was neuer knowne that any the natyues of Afric or Ethiopia haue vsed shippings Therefore they could not bee of that parte of the worlde for in that distance sayling they would haue beene starued if no other shore had giuen them relefe And that they were not of America is verye manifest for vpon all the Est parte of that continent beeing now thereby discouered it hath not at any time beene perceiued that those people were euer accustomed to any order of shiping which appeareth by the ariuall of Colon vpon those coastes for they had his shipping in such wonderfull admiration that they supposed him and his companie to haue descended from heauen so rare strang a thing was shiping in their eyes Therefore those Indians could not bee of America safely to bee driuen vpon the chastes of Germany the distance and impedimentes well considered Then comming neither from Afric nor America they must of necessitie come from Asia by the Noreast or Norwest passages But it should seme that they came not by the Noreast to double the promontory Tabin to bee forced through the scithiā sea and to haue good passage through the narrow straight of Noua Zemla neuer to recouer any shore is a matter of great imposibilitie Therefore it must needes be concluded that they came by the North partes of America through that discouered sea of 950. leages and that they were of those people which Francisco Vasques of Coronado discouered all which premises considered there remaineth no more doubting but that the landes are disioyned and that there is a Nauigable passage by the Norwest of God for vs alone ordained to our infinite happines and for the euer being glory of her maiestie for then her stately seate of London should be the storehouse of Europe the nurse of the world and the renowne of nations in yelding all forraine naturall benefits by an easie rate in short time returned vnto vs and in y e fulnes of their natural perfection by natural participatiō through the world of all naturall and artificiall benefites for want whereof at this present the most part liue distressed and by the excellent comoditie of her seate the mightines of her trade with force of shipping thereby arising and most aboundant accesse and intercourse from all the kingdomes of the worlde then should the ydle hand bee scorned and plenty by industry in all this land should be proclamed And therefore the passage procued and the benefites to all most apparant let vs no longer neglect our hapines but like christians with willing and voluntary spirits labour without fainting for this so excellent a benefit To prooue by experience that the sea fryseth not HAuing sufficiently prooued that there is a passage without any land impediments to hinder the same contrary to the first obiection it nowe resteth that the other supposed impedimentes hee likewise answered And firste as touching the frost and fresing of the seas it is supposed that the frozen Zone is not habitable and seas innauigable by reason of the vehemencie of cold by the diuine creator allotted to y e part of the world we are drawn into y e absurdity of this opiniō by a coniectural reason of the sunnes far distance and long absence vnder the Horyzon of the greatest parte of that Zone whereby the working power of colde perfourmeth the fulnesse of his nature not hauing any contrary disposition to hinder the same and when the Sunne by his presence should comfort that parte of the world his beames are so far remoued from perpendicularitie by reason of his continuall ueerenes to the Horizon 〈◊〉 that the effectes thereof answere not the violence of the winters cold And therefore those seas remayne for euer vndissolued Which if it be so that the nature of cold can congeale the seas it is very likely that his first working power beginneth vpon the vpper face of the waters and so descending worketh his effect which if it were howe then commeth it to passe that shippes sayle by the North cape to Saint Nicholas fiue degrees or more within the frozen Zone and finde the seas free from pester of yse the farther from the shore the clearer from yse And my selfe likewise howe could I haue sayled to the septentrionall latitude of seuentie fiue degrees beeing nine degrees within the frozen Zone betwene two lands where the sea was straightned not fortie leages bro●de in some places and thereby restrained from the violent motion and set of the maine occi●● an● yet founde the same Nauigable and free from yse not onely in the middest of the chanell but also close aborde the estern shore by me 〈◊〉 Desolation and therefore what neede the repetition of authoritics from writers or wrested Philosophical reasons when playne experience maketh the matter so manifest and yet I deny not but that I haue seene in some part of those seas tow sortes of yse in very great quantity as a kind of yse by seamen named yla●●s of yse being very high aboue the water forty and fiftie fadomes by estimation and higher and ●uery of those haue beene seuen times as much vnder the water which I haue proued by taking a ●eece of yse and haue put the fame in a vessell of salt water and still haue found the seuenth part thereof to bee aboue the water into what ●orme soeuer I haue reduced the same and this kind of yse is nothing but snow which falleth in th●se great peeces from the high mountains bordering close vpon the shore depe seas For all the sea coastes of Desolatoin are mountains of equall height with the Pike of Tenerif with verye great vallies betweene them which I haue seene incredible to bee reported that vpon the toppe of some of these ylls of yse there haue beene stones of more then one hu●●reth ●●mes wayght which in his fall that snowe hath torne from the clyffs and in falling maketh such an horible noyse as if their were one hundreth canons shot of at one instant and this kinde of yse is verye white and freshe and with shore winds is many times beaton far of into the seas perhaps twentie