at distance. But the cairn was found
to be a very distant mountain, the shirt-sleeves were formed of
snow-fields, the sou'-westers of pointed cliffs, and the motion
arose from oscillatory changes in the atmospheric strata. ]

[Footnote 139: Undoubtedly _Anser bernicla_, which is common on the
west coast of Spitzbergen. The Dutch name ought neither to be
translated _red goose_, as some Englishmen have done, nor confounded
with _rotges_. ]

[Footnote 140: See the copy of Barents' own map with his course laid
down upon it, which is to be found in Pontanus, _Rerum et urbis
Amstelodamensium Historia_ (Amst. 1611), and is annexed to this work
in photolithographic facsimile. ]

[Footnote 141: On the assumption of a horizontal refraction of about
45'. ]

[Footnote 142: See on this point De Veer, leaf 25 and an unpaged
leaf between pages 30 and 31 in Blavii _Atlas Major_, tom. i. That a
mistake occurred in the date is not possible, because the latitude
was determined by solar observations on the 29th (19th) February,
the 21st (11th) and 31st (21st) March (see De Veer, I. 27). Besides,
at the correct date, the 3rd February (24th January), a conjunction
of Jupiter and the moon was observed, whereby the difference of
longitude between Ice Haven and Venice was determined to be 75 deg..
However erroneous this determination may be, it shows, however,
that the date was correct. ]

[Footnote 143: Built along with a weigh-house intended for the
Norwegians in 1582 by the first vojvode in Kola (_Hamel_, p. 66).
In Pontanus (_Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium Historia_, Amsterodami,
1611, p. 142), there is a drawing of the inner yard of this house,
and of the reception of shipwrecked men there. ]

[Footnote 144: The year is incorrectly given as 1647 by F. von
Adelung (_Kritisch-Litteraerische Uebersicht_, &c.). ]

[Footnote 145: The following editions are enumerated: four French,
Paris, 1671, 1672, 1676, and Amsterdam, 1708; six German, Hamburg,
1675, Leipzig, 1703, 1706, 1710, 1711, and 1718; one Latin,
Glueckstadt, 1675; two Dutch, Amsterdam, 1681 and 1685; one Italian,
printed in Conte Aurelio degli Anzi's _Il Genio Vagante_, Parma,
1691; two English, one printed separately in 1706, the other in
Harris, _Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibl_., 3rd edition. London,
1744-48, Vol. II. p. 457. ]

[Footnote 146: The story of the wind knots is taken from Olaus
Magnus, _De gentibus septentrionalibus_, Rome, 1555, p. 119. There a
drawin