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The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596)

Note 87 — THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS.

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The 28 of July, the height of the sun being taken at noone with the astrolobiū, it was found to be eleuated aboue the horizon 57 degrees and 6 minutes,87 her declination being 19 degrees and 18 minutes, which in all is 76 degrees and 24 minutes, they being then about 4 [16] miles from the land of Noua Zembla, that lay all couered ouer with snow, the weather being cleare, and the wind east.

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