1 See Dr. Beke’s Introduction. ↑

2 Brownel is the recognised English equivalent for Brunel. ↑

3 See Dr. Beke’s Introduction. ↑

4 Fair Island, an island half-way between the Orkneys and the Shetland Islands. ↑

5 Where, in the extract, miles are spoken of, they are nautical miles, or sixty in a degree of the equator. ↑

6 Spits- (pointed) Bergen (mountains). ↑

7 Gerrit de Veer, son of Albert de Veer and Cornelia van Adrichem, belonged to an old and illustrious Dutch family. He was a younger brother of Ellert de Veer, who occupied the position of Councillor of Amsterdam, when Gerrit de Veer undertook his voyage to Novaya Zemlya. In April 1610, Ellert de Veer was sent to England as plenipotentiary, on which occasion he was knighted by James I. Gerrit de Veer died, unmarried, abroad.—Heraldic Library, 1874. ↑

8 This chart is also to be found, with a few additions, in Asher’s Hudson the Navigator, and in Pontanus’ History of Amsterdam, 1614. ↑

9 The south point of Prince Charles’s Foreland? ↑

10 The Red Bay and the Zeemosche Bay, with the Archipelago and the Mauritius Bay? ↑

11 Cloven Cliff, and the other islands of the archipelago? ↑

12 The north-western archipelago, with Amsterdam and Danish Islands? ↑

13 Magdalena Bay. ↑

14 Sir Thomas Smith Bay. ↑

15 What is called in the chart, from Purchas’ His Pilgrimes, vol. iii, “The Barr”? ↑

16 Faire Forelaud, still known in the Dutch charts as Vogelhoek (Cape Bird)? ↑

17 Ice Sound? ↑

18 Bell Sound? ↑

19 The south point of Spitsbergen? ↑

20 Mr. De Jonge, Novaya Zemlya, p. 24. ↑

21 See “Notes on the Ice between Greenland and Novaya Zemlya”, by Captain M. H. Jansen, of the Dutch Navy (Proceedings of the R.G.S., vol. ix, No. IV, p. 170). ↑

22 Mr. de Jonge, Novaya Zemlya, p. 25. ↑

23 The second volume of the work “Die Cronycke van Hollant, Zeeland ende Vrieslant”, etc., was written by Ellert de Veer, the brother of Gerrit de Veer, and published by Lawrens Jacobsz at Amsterdam in 1591. ↑