That the _English_ have been very great Undertakers of Voyages and Discoveries toward the North-West, appears by the denomination of divers places, both from the Persons which have Sail’d thitherward, and also from such of our own Countrey Names as were thought fit to be there fix’d, as beyond the _Arctick Circle_ are Sir _James Lancaster’s Sound_, Sir _Dudley Diggs’s Cape_, Queens _Annes Foreland, Cumberland Isles, Davis’s Straight, &c._ on this side toward the _Arctick Circle_, _Button_’s and _Brigg_’s _Bay_, _Hudson_’s _Sea_, otherwise term’d _Mare Christianum_, out of which more Westerly runs a narrow Sea call’d _Hudson_’s _Straight_: beyond _Hudson_’s _Sea_ towards the _Arctick Circle_ is a place call’d _New North-Wales_; and on this side answerable to it, between _Button_’s _Bay_ and the _Christian Sea_, lies _New South-Wales_; all which places we find generally set down in the _American_ Hemisphere, but in the Geographical Discourses thereof little is said of them, if so much as nam’d. The farthest part of Land Northward, between _Hudson_’s _Gulph_ and _Hudson_’s _Straight_, betwixt fifty seven and sixty Degrees of Northern Latitude, goes generally by the Name of _Estotiland_, I mean that properly so call’d (for _Estotiland_ is by some as largely taken as _Canada_, by _Cluverius_, _Golnitzius_, _Peter du Val_, and others, namely for all that Tract of Land extending from that supposed _Straight of Anian_, which divides _America_ from _Asiatick Tartary_, as far as the utmost point of Land that shoots toward the _Atlantick Ocean_) which Southerly towards _Terra Laboratoris_ is bounded with a River vulgarly call’d _Rio Nevado_, or _The Snowy River_. _Estotiland_ seems to have deriv’d its Name from its lying more Easterly than the rest of the Provinces, and, according as _Nova Britannia_ is plac’d in some Charts, might very well be taken for the same, though it hath not been so term’d by any Author, but rather _Terra Laboratoris_, _Cortereatis_, and _Nova Britannia_ are generally receiv’d to be all one. [Sidenote: First discovery of _Estotiland_.] [Sidenote: The Nature of the People.]