Note 5 — To the Right Worshipfull, Sir Thomas Smith Knight, Gouernour of the Muscouy Company, &c.

Let vs looke into the White Seas,5 that are now so commonly sayled (on the north side of Muscouia), with what cumbersome labour and toyle they were first discouered: What hath now made this voyage so common and easie? is That which in the beginning is hard, by continuance of time is made easie and light. it not the same, and as long a voyage as it was, before it was fully knowne and found out? I,6 but the right courses, which at the first were to be sought, by crossing the seas from one land to another, and are now to be held aloofe into the seas and directly sayled, hath, of difficult and toylesome, made them easie and ready voyages.