A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . INTRODUCTION. XXXlll now very rare, contains (as will be seen) a delineationof Novaya Zemlya, there shown as an island of notlarge extent, and the snrrounding regions. Thestrongly marked entire line along the western sideof Novaya Zemlya, is that of the coast as fnrnishedto Massa by his Russian authorities: the faint dottedline is that of the coast as corrected by himself orGerard from Dutch sources of information. Theproper names, as written in strong and
A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . INTRODUCTION. XXXlll now very rare, contains (as will be seen) a delineationof Novaya Zemlya, there shown as an island of notlarge extent, and the snrrounding regions. Thestrongly marked entire line along the western sideof Novaya Zemlya, is that of the coast as fnrnishedto Massa by his Russian authorities: the faint dottedline is that of the coast as corrected by himself orGerard from Dutch sources of information. Theproper names, as written in strong and faint charac-ters respectively, indicate, in like manner, the severalsources from which such names were derived. Inthis map a broad channel is laid down between theisland of Novaya Zemlya and a terra innominata tothe north of it, to which channel is given the nameof Matsei of tsar, which was evidently intendedfor Mat/eiof tsar, which again must be taken tohave been written instead of Matfeiof tsar, througha mere clerical error.^ The faint dotted line along la Collection des grands et petits Voyages, p. 254, in which, however,he has
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