Reys van Anthony Jenkinson, op ordre van de Engelse, Moscovise Maat-schappy, om een weg door Tartarie naa...

and not West and East, as Herodotus, along with all the ancients and Eastern geographers, has posited; note the Prince Abul-Feda, and the geographer from Nubia, Al-Idrisi. Meanwhile, Olearius bases his opinion on no other change of weight than this: that from the landscape of Khorasan, stretching along the east coast of this sea to Circassia, one has only 6 degrees in length, namely 90 German miles. It is now settled among those who understand the nature of longitudes that one does not yet have sufficient experience to know how many degrees of longitude exist between two places that lie East and West of each other. It has little appearance that in lands as civilized as those, people would be found who could make this observation with the required circumstances. In my opinion, one should only hold to what he says, that this coast stretches from the Volga to Ferabat, and for the rest of the coasts of the sea, believe the ancients of this land. Especially Jenkinson, one of the greatest mariners of his century, who crossed this sea from the outlet of the Volga to Mangyshlak and left us the only description we have of it. For Eratosthenes, from whom we have the measure of the coasts of this sea, was unknown to the northern coast. According to Jenkinson, as one will see in his sea voyage, the greatest extent of this sea is nearly from East to West, as the ancients posited. Jenkinson estimates it at 200 German miles, for he reckons 74 miles from the mouth of the Volga to the Cape of Boghelatan. Olearius, on the other hand, in his map from the German printing, sets no more than half of this distance; and thus, as the learned M. Vossius has very well noted,