An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen. 2 1 be vehement breaking of the Sea, or by great uantity of white foam. The Names of the Havens you find all in rder one after another in the Map of Spi1z– ge11, as far as we have been. Thefe Havens they reckon to be the fafeft., ;,z,, the Sdfe-H11rbo11r., and the S011th and North– aJ, which are the moft known of any in it'Lbergen. The other Havens, of what narnes foever., ecommonly fail by, becauíe they lye open to eSea. Others we país by becaufe of the coníl:ant lec at is in them, a.,d the hidden Rocks. In the Soi,th or North· Haven or B111, ride mmonly the moft Ships ; 1 told feveral times n, twenty, nay thirty Ships, tbat lay at An– or, as you may fee in the Plates C aod p, arked with e and el. Conl'.:erning the Birds, we fee abundance ore of them by and on the Land, then a– or.g the Ice, chicffy when they batch their ggs; we do not find they make their Nefr up ith far-fetcht things, neither do they gather y thing for them from Nonr,111, Schctland, or e like. The Seeds of feveral Herbs might grow in itzber,(en, but the Herbs nature hath beftow– on thofe Conntries, are fuch as are fic for e Diíeafes and Difremp,ers ,bat are common ere. · We fav1 abundance of Se11-l1orfe1 by Spitt'.· gen, on the low Land, and opon the Ice ; B 3 bu.t