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DISSERTATOIN OF JOHN ISAAC PONTANUS, &e. 127
obtained permiffion of the governor, who was there on the part of the great Duke of
Mofcovy, to have their veflels conducted to the exchange, or warehoufe of the merchants,
and to leave them there as facred, in order to preferve the memory of fo long and dan-
gerous a voyage, made by a route till then unknown, and in finall veflels without any
covering, which had navigated nearly four hundred leagues along the coafts and in the
main fea to Cola; at which the inhabitants of that city were in an aftonifhment which
would have been difficult to exprefs.
On the fifteenth of September they came down the river in a bark to get on board
the veflel of John Cornelifz, which lay half a league from the town, and in the afternoon
the veflel alfo defcended half way down the river and beyond the ftrait. On the eigh-
teenth they left the river and {tood out to fea, in order to proceed to Holland. On the
following day, at fix in the evening, they came before Wardhuis, where they anchored,
becaufe Cornelifz had yet to take in there fome merchandife.
_ On the fixth of October, in the evening, they weighed anchor and left Wardhuis,
and on the twenty-ninth of the fame month they entered the Meufe, failing with aE.N.E.
wind. The following day they proceeded by land to Maaflandt-fluis, Delft, Haerlem,
and on the firft of November they arrived at Amfterdam, in the fame drefs they had
worn at Novaya Zemlia, and with the fame furred caps of foxes’ fkins: thence they
proceeded to the houfe of Peter Haflelaar, who was one of the directors for the city of
Amfterdam at the time of the equipment of the two veffels at that place ; that is to fay,
the one of John Cornelifz, and that of the mafter who had been to Novaya Zemlia, and
returned.
‘The return of the remainder of the crew of the loft veffel occafioned much furprife
to the people, who had thought them dead; and as the report quickly fpread through
the city, it came to the ears of the Chancellor of the King of Denmark, then his ambaf-
fador to Holland, while he was at table and dining at the Prinfhof*. The high bailiff
of Amlterdam went himfelf with two other lords of the city to fetch them, and they
made a recital before the ambaflador and the burgomafters of Amfterdam of their voyage
and adventures ; after that they retired. Thole who had dwellings at Amfterdam went
to their houfes, and the others were placed at an inn, and their expences defrayed until
they had drawn up their_accounts and had been paid. ‘They were in all. to the number
of twelve.
* The houfe where the counfellors of the admiralty aflemble.
DISSERTATION OF THE LEARNED JYOHN ISAAC PONTANUS, IN WHICH HE
ANSWERS THE OBFECTIONS OF THOSE WHO CONSIDER THE SEARCH OF
A NORTHERN PASSAGE AS A TASK OF TOO GREAT DIFFICULTY; AND
IN WHICH HE PROPOSES THE MOST PROBABLE MEANS OF ACCOM-
PLISHING THIS DESIGN.
(Ibid. Vol. I. p. 254.)
THERE are fome perfons who might object that what has been attempted is abfo-
lutely impoffible, that we have not been able to accomplith it, and that moft probably
we fhall never fucceed. But I anfwer, that the fame was formerly faid of the navigation
to the Eaft Indies, which at prefent is fo happily praCuifed by the Dutch and Portugyefe,
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