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

Note 90 — THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS.

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The 29 of July the height of the sunne being taken with the crosse-staffe, astrolabium, and quadrant,90 they found it to bee eleuated aboue the horizon 32 degrees, her declination being 19 degrees, which substracted from 32 there resteth 13 degrees of the equator, which being substracted from 90 there rested 77 degrees; and then the neerest north point of Noua Zembla, called the Ice Point,91 lay right east from them.

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