Reigning Iohn Vasiliwich Emperor of Russia, and great Duke of
Moscouia, who after he had, to his great delight and admiration, seene the
English men, entertained them with exceeding great curtesies) found this
sea to be nauigable, and not frozen.
[Sidenote: The great hope of the Northeastern dicouerie.] Which nauigation
to Cathay, although it be not as yet throughly knowen, yet if with often
frequenting the same, and by long vse and knowledge of those seas it bee
continued it is like to make a wonderfull change and reuolution in the
state of this our port of the world.
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The testimonie of Gerardus Mercator in his last large Mappe of Europe,
touching the notable discoueries of the English, made of Moscouie by the
Northeast.
Magnam occasionem certamque rationem emendandae Europae nobis attulit
celeberrima Angloram per Cronium mare nauigatio: quae littora
Septentrionalia Finlappie Moscouiaeque iuxta coeli situm, mundique plagas
digesta habet. Exacta etiam vrbis Moscuae latitudo ab Anglis obseruata,
interiorum Regionum emendatius describendarum infallibilem legem
praescripsit: Quibus oblatis adminiculis pulcherrimis, iniquum putaui
tabulam hanc castigatiorem non reddere.
The same in English.
The most famous nauigation of the English men by the Northeast sea hath
offered vnto me a great occasion, and certaine direction for the
reformation of the mappe of Europe:
