The three voyages of William Barentz to the Arctic regions, (1594, 1595, and 1596) . himfrom others, and the conclusions, or sometimes mere hypo-theses, based by himself on such information. On the present occasion, however, having the originalstatements of Anthony Marsh before us, we can have nohesitation in availing ourselves of Dr. Harness comments onthe same, and in agreeing with him2 that the present nameMatochkin Shar appears to be merely a corruption of Mat- 1 See Liitke, pp. 71 7!t. - Tradescant der aeltere, p. .J^o. Caerte van\ Hoord&rJbzs f Sanio/eden y &n(^c ^Thi^oesefi
The three voyages of William Barentz to the Arctic regions, (1594, 1595, and 1596) . himfrom others, and the conclusions, or sometimes mere hypo-theses, based by himself on such information. On the present occasion, however, having the originalstatements of Anthony Marsh before us, we can have nohesitation in availing ourselves of Dr. Harness comments onthe same, and in agreeing with him2 that the present nameMatochkin Shar appears to be merely a corruption of Mat- 1 See Liitke, pp. 71 7!t. - Tradescant der aeltere, p. .J^o. Caerte van\ Hoord&rJbzs f Sanio/eden y &n(^c ^Thi^oesefi tandt : g7s?o datvarftie Ruweti dfgbetekmt7 en door Isaac-Ji*<sa,wrta*It TTT1 ~dCastee ISomtTsydz aft Lestn- THE FIRST EDITION. lxXXVli yushin Shar; Matyusha itself being the diminutive of theRussian proper-name Matvei, or Matthew, which name wasprobably that of the first discoverer of this passage. Itwould also seem that the expression Mattuschan Yar*,made use of by Anthony Marsh, is intended for this Mat-yushin Shar, and not, as Dr. Hamel supposes,1 for the coast(yar ?) lying opposite to Novaya Zemlya; and that thebreadth attributed by Marsh to Mattuschan Yar, of insome parts forty versts over, and in some parts not past sixversts over, is meant to apply to the supposed breadth ofthe passage itself. There can, further, be no doubt that Dr. Hamel is rightin his conclusion,—indeed, it is self-evident from Marshsstatement,—that towards the close of the sixteenth century,and previously to the time when the Dutch visited thoseparts, Novaya Zemlya was looked on as an island extendingfrom Burroughs Strait (Karskoi Yorota) as far northwardsonly as Mattuschan
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