Virginia Britannia is a country in America; yt lyeth betweene the degrees of 30 and 44 of the north latitude; the bowndes whereof may well be thus layd: on the east runneth the great ocean, or mayne Atlantique Sea; on the south side, Florida; on the north, Nova Francia; as for the west, the lymitts thereof are unknowne, only it is supposed there maye be found the discent into the South Sea, by the Spaniards called Mar del zur, so meeting with the doubtfull north-west passage, which leades into the east, to China, Cathay, Giapan, the Moluccaes, etc., now ymagined to be discovered by our countryman Hudson, and therefore, for the more certainty therof, the search anew this presente yeare, undertaken by Capt. Button, Capt. Nelson, and Capt.: albeit, there be who affirme that if there should be a third land-locked sea, which hath no enter- course at all with the ocean (like the Mare Caspium, and Mare Mortmain in Palestina), yt lieth upon the north-west of America; when yet againe Gemma Frisius recordeth three brethren that went this passage, and left a name unto the Streights of Anian, where the sea striketh sowth into Mar del-zur, beyond America, whereby that streict is nowe called Fretum trium fratrum: we doe reade, likewise, of a Portugal that passed this streict, of whom Sir Martin Fur bisher speaketh, that was imprisoned therefore many yeares in Lishhon, likewise Anordaneta, a frier of Mexico, came out of Mar del zur this way into Germany, whose card hath ben seene by gentlemen of good credit.