. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. Chap. V. • sJ M E%,IC A. 66j There are few that have Sail'd to Greenland, but make grut mention of Qnrry «*»*-#»«* Ijland, Co call'd, as having been firft difcover'd at the Charges of Sir Francis Cherry, an eminent Merchant • by others Bear-Ifland, from the multitude of Bears found there; it lies in the Latitude of feventy four Degrees, and is noted for ftore of Fowl, Foxes like Dogs, and upon the Coafts great ftore of Whales, Sea-Horfcs^nd Morfes: It is alio faid to be furnifh'd with Lead^Mines, and Pits of Sea-Coal. Ifeland, Co call'd from the continual Ice which is upon it, is a craggy mountain- g£nrfoiw,rf ous Countrey ; and not onely the Hills, but a great part of the Low-land cover'd rr°f>w. with perpetual Snow : It is of a Form fomewhat oblong, lying between the fifty fourth and fifty ninth Degree of Northern Latitude, having Norway on theEalfyhe Orcades and Scotland on the South firenland on the Wcft,and the Hyperborean,or frozen Sea on the North. It is by Olaus Magnus fuppos'd to be twice as big as Sicily, that is to fay,about a hundred Leagues in length. It is the moll known,and moft througly difcover'd of all the Countreys of the Artick Region, and is faid to have been firft found out and peopled in the Year of our Lord ooo. by certain of the Nobility of Eaft'Frifia in the Countrey of ©reme, in the time of Aleb
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