An account of several late voyages and discoveries

xxii Thc lntrodué\ion. rirAn. The Jiffire11ce oflbefe appeara11ces,do1lu p,,,ceed ftom áilfere111 l\efraüions, hNt fto111 lhe d' ftre11ce o/Latitude, in 'lllhi,:h the EnglHh and Dut1 n,inter'd, 1ho the colá in Nova Zembla exceed- thdl felt in Oreen)and. In thefe Co11,itries th k " conlinN'd DaJ for fo11r or jive 111011ths in t 1ear, 111 weU M a perpelual Night for three monl fo for thc Moft parl 1here il eitber aU Light, Dr Darl<._nefi. The Eogliíh that were neceffetated lo wime, · Orce11I.inJ, liiJ'J 11pon Venifon ( oj which there great fl()re, perhaps '1il ofthe R.hin-deer) 11pn11 M les, Bears, foxes, {fe. The Bears Flefh W<H lo rahlj pleafa111 ""dwh()lfam, b111 the Li1Jer 111ade th · skin, pee/ off; which wa, alfa ohfi:r1/d bJ the Dut . that winlcr'd in Nova Zcmbla. .As 1he s,,,. DaJ-light began to ttppeJr, the 1-'owJs a11d Fox crepl abroad, for which 1Lc1 [d 1raps a,id Sprin~, dndfa took. v,1(1 manbcrs: 1Le Foxes prov'd 'll'hc' fa,JJe Food, fu IIJ it 1he Duich were alfa rclic'IJ'd , their S(urveys. In May ih9 fa1111d greal flore Eggs !"id /Jy WiJlo~ks. 11Je cfJltl /Jad. prodigio Effea s on ,mr ,\len in Greenland, a,id on theDut in Nova Zembla, as bl~1ering and ulcering lh · Flef1, ftee-z.ing their S",'4_ and Spirits, floping 1[11¡ Oo,·4,,frcez.ing e1JtrJ thil'ig bJ the fire fide; aUwhi, Captain J.!mts faJfer'd in 1he Hland of Charlctc tho on_fy in the 5 1 De:g. of North Lat. whcrctn t Enghth ,tnd Dut~h rvintcr'd in 75 and 78 Deg. North Lar. In 1he Ímildin,'{ of Houfe,, Tenis, ,1 C:1bins, 11po11 thefe 1JJe/,mcholy occafion1, 'twm fa11n expediml lo 1;1a~c th,:m 1mdcr R,round, aml to Ji them with the s4}11s of Bc.,¡i,, ti.1erehJ to '<!ep out t' flurp í111prrjfio11s of Jl,c air. ).,