Note 135 — INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION.
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On the following day the indefatigable Barents “went on shoare on the south side of the States Iland, and layd a stone on the brinke of the water, to proue whether there were a tide, and went round about the iland to shoote at a hare; and returning”—as he says in the only writing undoubtedly of his original composition which has been preserved to us—“I found the stone as I left it, and the water neither higher nor lower; which prooueth, as afore, that there is no flood nor ebbe.”135