Sentence:  Various harbours fit to receive settlers are now enumerated by the author; and as for the cold, of which some, through report, entertained a <WSD>nervous</WSD> dread, he invites his readers to reflect on "the great colde that is at times in Muſcouia, Sweidon, Norway, Spruceland, Poland, Denmarke, and other Eaſterne and Northerne parts of the world, where the people liue well and grow rich;" [...] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.