A Letter, not Long Since Written to the Publisher by an Experienced Person Residing atAmsterdam, Containing a True Description of Nova Zembla, Together with an Intimation ofthe Advantage of Its Shape and PositionSource: Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 9 (1674), pp. 3-4Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/101132 .

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( 3) And the Prince of L-atin Poets, 1Virgil, fawv aniongifc his Iheroes in his flowry Elyjium, the Valilant for their Countrey., the, Elo-. quent., and the Inventors of Arts for humane Accorntodations., and thofe who purchafed laftingr Honor by real merit : Thefe, he faw there crown'd with Garlands as white as fuow:

Heic manzts, obpatriampugnando vulnerapalfi;) Quyiue piil V~ates, & Phcebo dignalcu8 (ned6.v Inventas aut gui vitam excoliuere per Artes, ~66o

Qzuiuefui' memores aliosfeceire merendo: Omni6uis hdis niveai cinguntur tempora rvittai.

Thefe old Eloges do juftly belong to our Noble Friends and worthy Correfpondents, who do fpend fo much of their Lives., and Labors, (and fome their T"reafures alfo,) to oblige eveD the ungrateful, and their yet unborn Pofterity.

Now I go on chearfully and wilth a refolved mind, begin-. niing with

A Letter, not long Jfince written to thle Put5l~'herby an Experi'en-. ced perfon reJia'ing at Amiferdam, contai'ning a true Defcrip-. tion f 'Nova Zembla, together with an intimation of the ad- -vantage of its Jhape and pofition.

S I Ri, IHerewith fend you what I have received out of Mufcovy,

which is a New Mapp of Nova Zerabla and Weigats., as it hath been difc-over'd by the exprefs order of the Czar;

and drawn bv a Pa'inter, called Pane/1aYpoetjki, who fent it me fronm Mcfco for a prefent: By which it appears, That Nova Zem6Ila is not an Ifland, as hitherto Ithathbeenbelieved to be; and that the Mare gl-aciazle is not a Sea, but a S i nus or Bay, theic wat.ers wnhereos are fwveet. Wh'ICh I's the fame wilth what- the Tartarsdoalfo affure us, wvho have tafted thiof~; watersc in the ve-

rymdfl, of the Sinus. The Samojeds as well as thae Tartars d -unanimouflv affi'.rm, that pafling on the baclT: of Nova Zem/Jla, at a con fiderah)lc d,iftance from thefhiore, Navig,,ators may well pa§"], as far as Yap'n. And .'tis agreat fault;in theE Z-,,,r/zjh andDutch, that fe-e-king tor-get tofapan onr the South-fiderf ,Nova Zembla, they hiave almoft always paffed the Weigats. The,t_ letterO Oin the great

A 2 River

( 3) And the Prince of L-atin Poets, 1Virgil, fawv aniongifc his Iheroes in his flowry Elyjium, the Valilant for their Countrey., the, Elo-. quent., and the Inventors of Arts for humane Accorntodations., and thofe who purchafed laftingr Honor by real merit : Thefe, he faw there crown'd with Garlands as white as fuow:

Heic manzts, obpatriampugnando vulnerapalfi;) Quyiue piil V~ates, & Phcebo dignalcu8 (ned6.v Inventas aut gui vitam excoliuere per Artes, ~66o

Qzuiuefui' memores aliosfeceire merendo: Omni6uis hdis niveai cinguntur tempora rvittai.

Thefe old Eloges do juftly belong to our Noble Friends and worthy Correfpondents, who do fpend fo much of their Lives., and Labors, (and fome their T"reafures alfo,) to oblige eveD the ungrateful, and their yet unborn Pofterity.

Now I go on chearfully and wilth a refolved mind, begin-. niing with

A Letter, not long Jfince written to thle Put5l~'herby an Experi'en-. ced perfon reJia'ing at Amiferdam, contai'ning a true Defcrip-. tion f 'Nova Zembla, together with an intimation of the ad- -vantage of its Jhape and pofition.

S I Ri, IHerewith fend you what I have received out of Mufcovy,

which is a New Mapp of Nova Zerabla and Weigats., as it hath been difc-over'd by the exprefs order of the Czar;

and drawn bv a Pa'inter, called Pane/1aYpoetjki, who fent it me fronm Mcfco for a prefent: By which it appears, That Nova Zem6Ila is not an Ifland, as hitherto Ithathbeenbelieved to be; and that the Mare gl-aciazle is not a Sea, but a S i nus or Bay, theic wat.ers wnhereos are fwveet. Wh'ICh I's the fame wilth what- the Tartarsdoalfo affure us, wvho have tafted thiof~; watersc in the ve-

rymdfl, of the Sinus. The Samojeds as well as thae Tartars d -unanimouflv affi'.rm, that pafling on the baclT: of Nova Zem/Jla, at a con fiderah)lc d,iftance from thefhiore, Navig,,ators may well pa§"], as far as Yap'n. And .'tis agreat fault;in theE Z-,,,r/zjh andDutch, that fe-e-king tor-get tofapan onr the South-fiderf ,Nova Zembla, they hiave almoft always paffed the Weigats. The,t_ letterO Oin the great

A 2 River

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(4) River Oby marks the place of a Catara& or Fall of Waters. The letter K denotes the conijunftion of Zembla with the Continent. The Rivermarked L, runs towards China, calledKitaie: which is not every where navigable, by reafon of the rocks and other inconveniences that obftrua the paffing of veffels. wzeigats it- felf is very ditficuit to pafs, becaufe of the great quantity of Ice, continually falling into it out of the river Oby, whereby that ftreight paffage is ftopp'd up. The Samajeds go every year a fifhing upon the faid fweet Sea and that on Nova Zem- bia's iid . f See the Fig. annexed.

A way of extravcing a Volatil Salt and Spirit out of Vegetables; intimated in Numb. I00. p. 7002; Experimented, and im- parted by the Learned and Intelligent Dr. Daniel Coxe, Fellow of the R. Society.

Ake, in warm weather, a confiderable quantity of the Leaves of any Vegetable, ftripp'd or pulled from the

greater ftalks; lay it on a heap, prefing it prettyclofe together: They will foon become very hot, efpecially in the middle, and after a few days refolve into a pappy fubftance (excepting the outward leaves,) which being made into pellets, and put into a Glafs-rctort, anddiftilled, will yield, befidesagreat quantity of

liquor, much thick black Oyl of a balfamick confiftence. The liquor being feparated from the Oyl, and diftilled in a tall Glafs-body, a Volatil Spirit fublimes, which, after one, two or three retifications, becomes perfeatly Urinous, not to be dif2inguifh't, by fmell or tafte, from well-reatified Spirit of Harts-horn, Blood, Urine, or Sal Armoniac.

I never made tryal of any Herb, which, thus ordered, did not yield the mentioned fubftances; although I have examin'd ma- ny by this method of procedure; which feer'd very different from each other as well in fenfible qualities, as thofe vulgarly called occult; fuchas Rue, Sage, both Celondines, Carduus be- nedi2us,Tobacco,ftinking Orach,garden Scurvy grafs,the leffer Spurge, Baum, Mint,Tanfy,Camomil, Monks Rhubarb, feveral Docks, and even Common Grafs, with many others, which it were altogether unneceffary to enumerate; befides Flowers of Elder, Paeony, Cowflips, Clove Gilliflowers, &c. with feveral

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(4) River Oby marks the place of a Catara& or Fall of Waters. The letter K denotes the conijunftion of Zembla with the Continent. The Rivermarked L, runs towards China, calledKitaie: which is not every where navigable, by reafon of the rocks and other inconveniences that obftrua the paffing of veffels. wzeigats it- felf is very ditficuit to pafs, becaufe of the great quantity of Ice, continually falling into it out of the river Oby, whereby that ftreight paffage is ftopp'd up. The Samajeds go every year a fifhing upon the faid fweet Sea and that on Nova Zem- bia's iid . f See the Fig. annexed.

A way of extravcing a Volatil Salt and Spirit out of Vegetables; intimated in Numb. I00. p. 7002; Experimented, and im- parted by the Learned and Intelligent Dr. Daniel Coxe, Fellow of the R. Society.

Ake, in warm weather, a confiderable quantity of the Leaves of any Vegetable, ftripp'd or pulled from the

greater ftalks; lay it on a heap, prefing it prettyclofe together: They will foon become very hot, efpecially in the middle, and after a few days refolve into a pappy fubftance (excepting the outward leaves,) which being made into pellets, and put into a Glafs-rctort, anddiftilled, will yield, befidesagreat quantity of

liquor, much thick black Oyl of a balfamick confiftence. The liquor being feparated from the Oyl, and diftilled in a tall Glafs-body, a Volatil Spirit fublimes, which, after one, two or three retifications, becomes perfeatly Urinous, not to be dif2inguifh't, by fmell or tafte, from well-reatified Spirit of Harts-horn, Blood, Urine, or Sal Armoniac.

I never made tryal of any Herb, which, thus ordered, did not yield the mentioned fubftances; although I have examin'd ma- ny by this method of procedure; which feer'd very different from each other as well in fenfible qualities, as thofe vulgarly called occult; fuchas Rue, Sage, both Celondines, Carduus be- nedi2us,Tobacco,ftinking Orach,garden Scurvy grafs,the leffer Spurge, Baum, Mint,Tanfy,Camomil, Monks Rhubarb, feveral Docks, and even Common Grafs, with many others, which it were altogether unneceffary to enumerate; befides Flowers of Elder, Paeony, Cowflips, Clove Gilliflowers, &c. with feveral

forts

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