An account of several late voyages and discoveries
.1 The Seeontl PIWI of tb, VoJag, but we faw b~tvery few Sea/u on the Ice t about. . ·: The Country ( as is afore(aid ) is íl:ony, quite tbrougbout it are' high Mountains . llocks. . •. ..;. · · Below, at the feet of -th~ Mountaios, the Hills of Ice very high, ·,, and reach t tops of the Mounrains s the Clitfs are fill witb Snow; wherefore thefe Snow-Mou fhow very firange.to thofe that 'never.faw bcfore, they appear like dry Trecs with ches and Twigs, and when the Snow f. upon rhem they g~t Leaves as ir ,wcre, foon after melt, and- oth(rs come in the r them. .-·-· , There are feven large lce-Mountains in a. in thefe Countries, . tbat -lye between the Rocks, which look of. a glorious blew ce; as alfo is the Ice, whil a great many_crac Hales in them; they are hollowed out, away, and cut in: Orovcs by the rain and water rhar runs down; !hcy aréincreafed ly by the Snow, asJhe oíher·lce that fwim the Sea is alfo: t'1ej.~are a~gmentcd likcw· the melte~. Snow,.from)be llocks, 2nd fr Rain rbac_falls on tbem~- ./: ...:, ·.-' · Thefe feven Moupc•illi':of Ice·are eílee be the highéíl in thc '" CotÍ'iltry; indeed fhewed very high as we failed by them, u neath: the Snow look'd dark from tbe fha the Skies, which (hewed very neat and cu with the blew cracks where the Ice was b off. . .. . : A
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