The worldes hydrographical discription [sic] wherein is proued not onely by aucthoritie of writers, but also by the late experience of trauellers and reasons of substantiall probabilitie, that the worlde in all his zones, clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited, and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable without any naturall anoyance to hinder the same : whereby appeares that from England there is a short and speedie passage into the South Seas, to China, Molucca, Philippina and India, by northerly nauigation to the renowne, honour and benifit of Her Maiesties state, and communalty. - Davis, John, (R.H. Evans?,, 1812)