And Not Having
Free Passage And Entrance Through That Frith Towards The West, By
Reason Of The Narrowness Of The
Said strait of Magellan, it runneth
to salve this wrong (Nature not yielding to accidental restraints)
all along the eastern
Coasts of America northwards so far as Cape
Frido, being the farthest known place of the same continent towards
the north, which is about four thousand eight-hundred leagues,
reckoning therewithal the trending of the land.
8. So that this current, being continually maintained with such
force as Jacques Cartier affirmeth it to be, who met with the same,
being at Baccalaos as he sailed along the coasts of America, then,
either it must of necessity have way to pass from Cape Frido through
this frith, westward towards Cathay, being known to come so far only
to salve his former wrongs by the authority before named; or else it
must needs strike over upon the coast of Iceland, Lapland, Finmark,
and Norway (which are east from the said place about three hundred
and sixty leagues) with greater force than it did from the Cape of
Good Hope upon the strait of Magellan, or from the strait of
Magellan to Cape Frido; upon which coasts Jacques Cartier met with
the same, considering the shortness of the cut from the said Cape
Frido to Iceland, Lapland, etc. And so the cause efficient
remaining, it would have continually followed along our coasts
through the narrow seas, which it doeth not, but is digested about
the north of Labrador by some through passage there through this
frith.
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