Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	island_n	north_n	sail_v	1,447	5	10.3942	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51536	A brief discourse of a passage by the North-pole to Japan, China, &c. pleaded by three experiments, and answers to all objections that can be urged against a passage that way ... with a map of all the discovered lands neerest to the pole / by Jospeh Moxon ...	Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.	1674 (1674)	Wing M2999; ESTC R225061	4,142	8

apprehend how to guide a Ship either forward or backward by an Observation of the Sun a little before you enter the Pole for by finding in or near what Meridian it is or upon what part of the Ship it bears whether on Head or Stern on Starboard or Larboard you may measure Time near enough with a Glass to know several daies after in or near what Meridian the Sun is at any known or estimate time and consequently know how to proceed forwards or come back with your Ship Or if the Moon have North Latitude you may do the same by the Moon But if the Pole were Traded in short time it might be found by Variation of the Needle for there is doubtless Variation in it and in all the Meridians about it several Variations Thus far it appears there is a free and open Sea in Summer time at least about the North-Pole But I shall add another Relation of one Iames Ben whose Father lived about five years ago in Crown-Court in Russel-street in Covent Garden and himself lives now in Wapping This Mr. Ben sailed to Iapan with the Dutch as a Carpenter of the Ship and he told me that that Year viz. 1668. he was newly come home from Iapan I askt him how long they were under way home from thence He told me he could not well tell because when they set out from Iapan the Captain commanded the Steer-man to sail due North and they did sail from thence about 400 Dutch Miles which is almost 27 degrees due North. I askt him whether they met with no Land or Islands as I had done before the Dutch Greenland Steer-man He told me No they saw no Land but that there was a free and open Sea so far as they Sailed nor any sign of Land appeared I askt him why they sailed so far Northward He told me he could not tell only the Captain commanded it c. But I suppose the East India Company commanded the Captain either to make a Discovery of Land to encrease Trade or to satisfie themselves with the knowledge of an open Sea that when they saw Reason they might expedite their Voyages between Holland and those parts that way I was thus Inquisitive with him because ever since I heard the former Relation of the Greenland Steer-man I harped at a Passage through or about the North Pole to Iapan China c. and by these two Discoveries it appears very probable that there is so and that it is passable in Summer time I come to a third Relation not only of the probability but of the certainty of a Passage found by the Russians this last year as it came to the hands of the Secretary of the Royal Society from Amsterdam by a Correspondent of his which in Transact Numb 101. run in these words A Letter and Map not long since sent to the Publisher by an Experienced Person residing at Amsterdam containing a true Description of Nova Zembla together with an intimation of the advantage of its shape and position SIR I Herewith send you what I have received out of Muscovy which is a New Mapp of Nova Zembla and Weigats as it hath been discover'd by the express order of the Czar and drawn by a Painter called Panelapoetski who sent it me from Mosco for a Present by which it appears That Nova Zembla is not an Island as hitherto it hath been believed to be and that the Mare glaciale is not a Sea but a Sinus or Bay the waters whereof are sweet which is the same with what the Tartars do also assure us who have tasted those waters in the very midst of the Sinus The Samojeds as well as the Tartars do unanimously affirm that passing on the back of Nova Zembla at a considerable distance from the shore Navigators may well pass as far as Iapan And 't is a great fault in the English and Dutch that seeking to get to Iapan on the South-side of Nova Zembla they have almost always passed the Weigats The letter O in the great River Oby marks the place of a Cataract or Fall of waters The letter K denotes the conjunction of Zembla with the Continent The River marked L runs toward China called Kitaie which is not every where navigable by reason of the rocks and other inconveniencies that obstruct the passing of Vessels Weigats it self is very difficult to pass because of the great quantity of Ice conrinually falling into it out of the River Oby whereby that strait passage is stopp'd up The Samajeds go every year a fishing upon the said sweet Sea and that on Nova Zembla's side This Map of Nova Zembla is here omitted because here is set forth a Map of all the Lands nearest about the North-Pole FINIS