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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92886	Atlas maritimus. or A book of charts Describeing the sea coasts capes headlands sands shoals rocks and dangers the bayes roads harbors rivers and ports, in most of the knowne parts of the world. With the true courses and distances, from one place to another. Gathered from the latest and best discoveryes, that have bin made by divers able and experienced navigators of our English nation. Accomodated with an hydrographicall description of the whole world. By John Seller. Hidrographer to ye Kings most excellent Majestie.	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1672 (1672)	Wing S2463C; ESTC R232795	34,424	61

others And St. Georges Fort built by the English at the Mouth of the River Sagahadar Adjoyning hereunto lyeth Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Nova Francia or Canadie and the small Peninsula called Accadia betwixt the Bay of St. Lawrence where the great River Canada falleth into the Gulf and the main Sea The noted places are Port Royal St. Lukes Port au Montou Gaspe Gachepe St. Croiz Franco Roy and St. Lewis The Commodities are chiefly Furs c. Not far to the eastward hereof lyeth the Isle of Sables At the most Eastern part of America Septentrionalis lyeth New-found-land New-found-Land an Island separated from the Main or Terra Corterialis by a Frith or Strait called Gulf de Casteaux furnished on the Sea-Coast with abundance of Cod-fish and other Fish for the catching of which Ships of many Countreys frequent that place having also many large and convenient Havens as Rennosa Fair-Haven Thorn-Bay Trinity-Bay Bonavist White-Bay Port Trespass St. Georges Bay St. Jones c. The Air of this Countrey never very extream more temperate in the depth of Winter than with us in England the Brooks being never so frozen over that the Ice is able to bear a Dog and those little Frosts but seldom holding three nights together Before the Island lyeth that long Bank extending in length some hundred of leagues near to which are many little Islands called by John Cabot Bacalos peculiar now to one onely from the numerous multitude of Cod-fish which swarmed hereabout Betwixt Cape de Gumay in Terra Corterialis and the Capes Farewel and Desolation near Groenland lyeth the two Sraits named Fretum Davis Fretum Davis Fretum Hudson and Fretum Hudson so called from the first Discoverers a Sea dilating it self much both towards the North South and West giving great Hopes thereby of a Passage to China and the East-Indies And therefore notwithstanding the Ice Fogs and other Incumbrances searched into by many English Worthies as Frobrsher Davis Weymouth Hudson Button Baffin Smith James Gillam and others who have sailed therein some one way and some another and given names to many places viz. King James his Cape Queen-Ann's Cape Prince Henry's Foreland Saddel Island Barren Island Redgoose Island Digs his Island Hackluits Headland Smiths Bay Prince Ruperts River Maudlin Sound Fair-haven and many others even from James his Bay on the South at the bottom whereof Hudson wintered in the latitude of 51 degrees to Baffins Bay on the North lying in the latitude of 79 degrees and to the westward as far as Port Nelson where Sir Thomas Button wintered being more westerly than Mr. Hudsons Bay by 190 leagues and near as far towards the West as Cape California in Mar del Zur where finding the Tyde continually to rise every twelve hours fifteen foot or more and that a West Wind did make the Neap Tydes equal to the Spring Tydes finding also the Tydes to set sometimes eastwards sometimes westwards gave good hope to Mr. Hubard who made the Plat thereof of a through Passage called therefore Hubards Hope And in the year 1667 a very honourable and worthy Design was renewed and undertaken for the discovery of this North-West Passage and setling a Trade with the Indians in those Parts by several of the Nobility of England and divers Merchants of note belonging to the City of London who fitted out two small Vessels for that purpose the one called the Nonsuch Ketch Captain Zachariah Gillam Commander the other the Eaglet Ketch Captain Staniard Commander the latter whereof being by stormy Weather beaten back returned home without success but the other proceeding on her Voyage in her way made the Land of Buss lying betwixt Iseland and Groenland passed through Hudsons Straits then into Baffins Bay from thence southerly into the Great Bay where in the latitude of fifty one degrees or thereabouts in a River now called Ruperts River he wintered found a friendly correspondence and civil entertainment with the Natives traded with them in exchange of Bever-Skins c. for Knives Beads Looking-Glasses Hatchets and other trivial Commodities and the next year returned with good success and future hopes of an excellent Trade in those parts giving invitation thereby to the aforesaid Noblemen and Merchants to adventure again Anno 1669. Which Voyage being not yet performed leaves us ignorant both of the Places and Trade thereof save what is already known undiscover'd till the conclusion of the Voyage Groenland called by the Natives Secanunga Groenland is that last part of America which remains onely to be spoken of a Countrey as is supposed but thinly inhabited and by reason of the abundance of Ice and inhospitableness of the People little frequented and consequently not so well known as to give a perfect description thereof for notwithstanding several Voyages have been made thither on purpose many Ships have accidentally touched upon the Coasts thereof in pursuance of the N. W. Discoveries yet for the causes aforesaid the Countrey lies still obscured in a Northern Mist being to us almost altogether unknown unless the names of certain Bayes Capes and such like as Whale-sound Horn-sound Rombels-ford Conningham Gilberts-sound Cocking-ford Cape Comfort Cape Desolation all within the Streight Cape Farewel Cape Discord Leister-point Warwick-Foreland Hernolds-Ness Bereford not far from the West part of Iseland and several others South-westward from Iseland about 140 leagues lyeth an Island called Buss Buss in the latitude of 57 degrees 35 minutes not yet fully discovered but only as it hath been accidentally seen by some who upon other Discoveries have occasionally passed those Seas as Captain Gillam in his first Voyage to the North-West Passage had Soundings near unto it From Iseland about 135 leagues North-eastwards in the latitude of seventy one degrees lyeth an Island called Trinity Island Trinity Island the North-East Point whereof is named Youngs-Foreland a place formerly much frequented by the Dutch for their Whale-fishing the Land is very high full of Rocks and Mountains one especially much higher than the rest called Bears Mountain Thus briefly have I touched at and as it were onely named the Sea-Coasts of most of the known Parts of the World which may serve as an entrance to the succeeding Sea-Atlas commending the Discovery of such parts as are yet unknown to the search of Posterity The Discoveries that have been made within this two hundred years by the Worthies of our own Nation as well as Strangers CHristopher Columbus the Genoes first determinately attempted to seek after and in the year 1492 prosperously discovered the great Cominent of America John Cabot a Venetian and his Son Sir Sebastian born in England succeeded Columbus in that famous Attempt and discovered all the North Coasts thereof from Cape Florida to New-found-Land But Americus Vesputius in discovering some of the South Parts thereof obtained the honour of having the whole Continent called by his Name America Ferdinando Magellan Anno 1519. was the first that found out that Strait towards the