. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. i>me was marked the iMldncns of â oon ascertained, â uch an immense i and laiul; that ;ht, and tjiotie of nd mom commo- he Mediterranean, lie stormy north, c, could not stand iage by the Cupe ;r t It was aban- ;ime was made to ith India havinr 1 and nauticcl m- the possibility of and east of Asia, id respuc im(r the nter the ocean by ore seemed likely portant countries
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. i>me was marked the iMldncns of â oon ascertained, â uch an immense i and laiul; that ;ht, and tjiotie of nd mom commo- he Mediterranean, lie stormy north, c, could not stand iage by the Cupe ;r t It was aban- ;ime was made to ith India havinr 1 and nauticcl m- the possibility of and east of Asia, id respuc im(r the nter the ocean by ore seemed likely portant countries iK, who had taken the river Osella, lus cosmographer, and of the efforts B Netherlands, to liatic coast. He ' called a tributary I details, appears lown which came nd precious mer- rart people.** In the great lake of 9 were the Kara le very people of he shores of this )ny of bells, and been seed NARTR'IAST voYAfltS. 10? Hcnre Mercator, in a letter to Hnkliivi. infers that n very small pro^^ress beyond the limit already reached by nuviKHtorx would carryr them to the great rnstem realms of Japan and China. He maintained that the capo bounding the Gulf of Obi was no other than the great promontory of Tabis, which, accord- ing to Plinv, formed the north-eastern boundary of Asia; which being turned, the fortunate navigator would bear down direct upon Sorica, Cathay, Cara- balu,âthose regions with which ancient and modem rumour had identified the position of the Chinese empire. This was undcrratmg the breadth of Asia by a hundred degrees of longitude, or more than a fourth of the circumference of the globe at this paral> lei; yet so imperfect were tlie sources of knowledge in those days, that the error, however immense, can- not be considered as fatal to the reputation of this great geographer. To realize these views, Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman were supplied in 1680 with two vessels, the George and the William. On the 93d June they arrived at Wardhuys; from which
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