Christchurch, Oxford.
_Oxford Friar's Voyage to the North Pole._--In a book I have, entitled
_Prospects of the most famous Parts of the World_, date 1646, occurs the
following:
"Towards the north pole we have gained, more in proportion, as far as
Nova Zembla, and the sea is known to be navigable to the 81st degree:
whether the rest be land or not it never yet appeared to any (as I
heare of) but an Oxford Friar by a Magique voyage. He reports of a
Black Rock just under the pole, and an Isle of Pygmies; other strange
miracles, to which, for my part, I shall give little credit till I have
better proof for it than the Devil's word."
Query, Who was the friar? and where is the account of his voyage to be
found?