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A Journey from Norwich to Colcn
City, is a Reservatory for Rain-water, which they have the more need
of, because they have little good water hereabouts.
The fairest Streets in the Town are Harlem-ftreet, the C ingel, Prin<>
ces Graft, Kaifers Graft, and the New Buildings in the lsland towards
Gttenburg. And if they continue to build with. Freestone, they will
srill surpals these, which, I’ll allure you, are in no small measure beau-
tiful.
I saw a Globe to be sold, made by Ningbomes, between six and seven
foot Diameter, valued at Sixteen thousand Guldens: The Meridian a-
lone, being of brass, coif a thousand Guldens. The Globe is made of
Copper-plates excellently well painted,with all the new Discoveries in it,
as that of Anthony Van Dimons Land, found out 1642,. in 42 degrees os
Southern Latitude,and 170 of Longitude, thole towards the North-west
of Japan, and thole places both about Nova Zembla, and also in the
Tartarian Sea beyond the Streights of Voygats, New-Holland, Weft-
prieftand, Cape T Hyver, &c. but I have since met with a Book,which
doth soraewhat contradict this; entituled A Voyage into the Northern
Countries by Mon fear Martiniere, who went in one of the three Ships
belonging to the Northern Company of Copenhagen, in the year
and by that means had occasion to converse with the Norwegians, lflan*
ders, Laplanders, Kilop s, Borandians, Siberians, Ae mb hans, and Sarno*
jedes, who are Neighbours to the Tartars and Tingorfes,\w his 46 Chap-
ter he exprelses himself after this manner. There having fallen into
my hands several Geographical Charts of sundry eminent and much
celebrated Authors, I am much amazed to see how they are mistaken
in the position of Zembla, which they place much nearer the North
Pole than really it is,- they divide it likewise by the Sea from Green-
land, and place it far distant from it, when as indeed those two Coun-
tries are Contiguous, the Coasts of Greenland butting upon the Coasts
os Zcmlla, so as did not the great quantity of Snow, and the violence
of the cold render those Borders uninhabitable, the passage would be
very easie by Land from Greenland to Zemblaand from Zembla palling
the Pater-nofter Mountains to enter into Samojedia, from thence into
Tart ay or Mufcovy, as one pleased : I was amazed likewise to see they
had described the Streight called C<?y^/,not above ten French Leagues
in length, whereas it contains above five and thirty Dutch Leagues,
which is six times as much Again, they would perswade us that
through that Streight our lhips might pass into the great Tartarian
Ocean, which is a mistake. And although they indeed do affirm that
in the time of Prince Maurice of Nasftaw, a Dutch Vesiel palled that
way into that Ocean, yet it is a manifest error, that Streight being
bounded, as I said before, by the Pater-nofter Mountains, which are
half a League high, and the tops of them covered with perpetual Snow,
which never dissolves. And of this I can give a positive testimony, ha-
ving been my self in that Streight under those Mountains in the Dog-
days, which is the hottest time of the year.
From the Steeple of the old Church of Amfterdam, I had a good
Prosped: of the Town, and the great number of Ships lying upon one
side of it, like a Wood and all the Towns about it. The Roofs of the
Houses being sharp,it is a most uneven Town to be looked upon down-
ward^ it is a handsome one to be looked on upwardjand is not so diver-
tising or pleasing to rhe sight, as some Towns in Prance and Italy, which
O 2, have
A Journey from Norwich to Colcn
City, is a Reservatory for Rain-water, which they have the more need
of, because they have little good water hereabouts.
The fairest Streets in the Town are Harlem-ftreet, the C ingel, Prin<>
ces Graft, Kaifers Graft, and the New Buildings in the lsland towards
Gttenburg. And if they continue to build with. Freestone, they will
srill surpals these, which, I’ll allure you, are in no small measure beau-
tiful.
I saw a Globe to be sold, made by Ningbomes, between six and seven
foot Diameter, valued at Sixteen thousand Guldens: The Meridian a-
lone, being of brass, coif a thousand Guldens. The Globe is made of
Copper-plates excellently well painted,with all the new Discoveries in it,
as that of Anthony Van Dimons Land, found out 1642,. in 42 degrees os
Southern Latitude,and 170 of Longitude, thole towards the North-west
of Japan, and thole places both about Nova Zembla, and also in the
Tartarian Sea beyond the Streights of Voygats, New-Holland, Weft-
prieftand, Cape T Hyver, &c. but I have since met with a Book,which
doth soraewhat contradict this; entituled A Voyage into the Northern
Countries by Mon fear Martiniere, who went in one of the three Ships
belonging to the Northern Company of Copenhagen, in the year
and by that means had occasion to converse with the Norwegians, lflan*
ders, Laplanders, Kilop s, Borandians, Siberians, Ae mb hans, and Sarno*
jedes, who are Neighbours to the Tartars and Tingorfes,\w his 46 Chap-
ter he exprelses himself after this manner. There having fallen into
my hands several Geographical Charts of sundry eminent and much
celebrated Authors, I am much amazed to see how they are mistaken
in the position of Zembla, which they place much nearer the North
Pole than really it is,- they divide it likewise by the Sea from Green-
land, and place it far distant from it, when as indeed those two Coun-
tries are Contiguous, the Coasts of Greenland butting upon the Coasts
os Zcmlla, so as did not the great quantity of Snow, and the violence
of the cold render those Borders uninhabitable, the passage would be
very easie by Land from Greenland to Zemblaand from Zembla palling
the Pater-nofter Mountains to enter into Samojedia, from thence into
Tart ay or Mufcovy, as one pleased : I was amazed likewise to see they
had described the Streight called C<?y^/,not above ten French Leagues
in length, whereas it contains above five and thirty Dutch Leagues,
which is six times as much Again, they would perswade us that
through that Streight our lhips might pass into the great Tartarian
Ocean, which is a mistake. And although they indeed do affirm that
in the time of Prince Maurice of Nasftaw, a Dutch Vesiel palled that
way into that Ocean, yet it is a manifest error, that Streight being
bounded, as I said before, by the Pater-nofter Mountains, which are
half a League high, and the tops of them covered with perpetual Snow,
which never dissolves. And of this I can give a positive testimony, ha-
ving been my self in that Streight under those Mountains in the Dog-
days, which is the hottest time of the year.
From the Steeple of the old Church of Amfterdam, I had a good
Prosped: of the Town, and the great number of Ships lying upon one
side of it, like a Wood and all the Towns about it. The Roofs of the
Houses being sharp,it is a most uneven Town to be looked upon down-
ward^ it is a handsome one to be looked on upwardjand is not so diver-
tising or pleasing to rhe sight, as some Towns in Prance and Italy, which
O 2, have