An account of several late voyages and discoveries

t, Spirzbergcn. 2 3 About the middle of th,. Mountains fome ggy Clouds ho,•cred ovcr; above thefe the ow was very bright. The rrue R.ocks look'd fiery, and the Son in'd pale upon them, the Snow giving the Air bright refleüion. They were covcred with louds, fo ehat you could fcarce íee the tops of bem, Some of theíe Rocks are but onc flone from he bottom to the top, appéaring like an old ecayed Wall ; they fmell very f weet, as the een Fields do in our Country in the Spring ben it rains. See , e in the Piare C. . The fiones for the moft part are vein'd dif– rently, like Marble, wirh red, white and ellow : at the alteration of the weather the ones fweat, and by that meaos the Snow is ained or coloured; and alfo if it raineth much. 'he water runs down by ::he llocks, and from . ence the Snow is tinged red. On the foot of the Mountains, where no ounts of Ice (hnd, 1 ye great loofe R.ocks, as ty chance to be fall 'n one upon tbe other, ith Caves aod Ho,".,, fo that it is very tickli{h 1lk;ng upon them; both great and ímall Stones r R.o(ks are mixed rogether: thefe Stones are fa grey cotour, or grey with black veins, ty glifier like Silvcr-oar. Moft of rhe Rocks at are at the bottom of the Mounts are like he P~bles we pave our Streets withal. On efe R.ocks grow all forts of Herbs, Graves, nd Mofs very plcntifully ; they grow up n the two Months of j1111e and J,,IJ, "from e 4 t~e