The three voyages of William Barentz to the Arctic regions, (1594, 1595, and 1596) . s not deemedto be a part of Novaya Zemlya, but had a distinct designa-tion, namely, Matthews Land, which in Russian would beMatvyeeva Zemlya,—an expression which corresponds pre-cisely with Marshs Land of Matfeov (Matpheoue). How this Matvyeeva Zemlya, together with MatyushinShar, should have been lost from our maps, may be easilyexplained, though not altogether in the way attempted byDr. Hamel. The accompanying facsimile of a map drawnby Isaac Massa, and published in 1612 by Hessel Gerard,in a small volume3 n
The three voyages of William Barentz to the Arctic regions, (1594, 1595, and 1596) . s not deemedto be a part of Novaya Zemlya, but had a distinct designa-tion, namely, Matthews Land, which in Russian would beMatvyeeva Zemlya,—an expression which corresponds pre-cisely with Marshs Land of Matfeov (Matpheoue). How this Matvyeeva Zemlya, together with MatyushinShar, should have been lost from our maps, may be easilyexplained, though not altogether in the way attempted byDr. Hamel. The accompanying facsimile of a map drawnby Isaac Massa, and published in 1612 by Hessel Gerard,in a small volume3 now very rare, contains (as will be seen) 1 Page 230. * Page 231. 3 Descriptio ac Delineatio geographica Detectionis Freti, sive Transitusad Occasum supra Terras investigati ab HenricoHudsono cum descriptiont Terras Samoiedarum et Tingoesiorumin Tartaria ad Ortum Freti Waygats sitse, etc. Atnsterodauii, ex offioinaHesselij Gerardi, anno 1G12. Sinail -Atu. The full title of this work is given by Camus, in his Memoire sur la Cyaerte vcm11y Hoon, ten. THE FIRST EDITION. lxxxvii 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 (Kar
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