An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova &c. : also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. / by Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh ; to which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe, the whole illustrated with charts and figures.
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- An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova &c. : also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. / by Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh ; to which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe, the whole illustrated with charts and figures.
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- 1694.
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"An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova &c. : also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. / by Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh ; to which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe, the whole illustrated with charts and figures." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52618.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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To the Honourable SAMUEL PEPYS, Esq SECRETARY OF THE Admiralty of England, TO K. CHARLES and K. JAMES II.
SIR,
THE Design of this Dedication is neither to flatter, nor to beg; but barely to present you with a sim∣ple and hearty Acknowledgment of your Kindness and Generosity to the Publick, in communicating your exact Memorials, in advancing the Progress of Useful Know∣ledge, and encouraging Men of Letters, or Invention: which Noble Endowments of
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Mind render'd you most Worthy of those High Stations, wherein you have been E∣minent, as well in the Chair of Philosophy, as Navigation; and the same will preserve you through all Ages in the good Esteem of the best part of Mankind. No Revo∣lution, no Storm, no Time, can shake such Foundations.
Monumentum Aere perennius.
Sir,
Your most devoted Servants,