An account of several late voyages and discoveries

, . ~4 Tbé Suonrl f ,,,, of tbe 'YoJag, the Seed to bear Seed again. Look f in rhe Plate C. The Herbs grow thickeC\ where the water ron¡ or falls down from the Bilis, ( and alfo whtn they are defended from the North and ü& winds) from whence always fome Duft orMoo is carried down witb it, which after a long ti becomes Earth ( yet it is rather Dung than , true Earth) and the BirJs do contribute by thti dung towuds ir. The(c Moumains feem as if thcy were Ea11 it top by reafon of the height, but when r are at the top of them, they are Rock as we at the top as the bottom, which we alfo r~ when great pieces of them falt down. If St are flung down from thcfe Mountains, it fou as if it rhundered with an Echo aod l\atling i the Valleys, as if very great pieces were thro off from rhe top of them. The Mountains allo are full of Cracks wher in the Bi'rds makc tbeir Nefts; they ali fly dow from thc Mountains to feek their Food in 1 water; fome eat the Carrion of Fiíl1cs, 01h: eat fmall Fiílles and Shrimps, as I (b~Jl fay, wht 1 treat of the Birds. There are alfo White-Bears, Deer and Fo1 in thefe Countries. The Bear liveth upan dea Wbales or dead Meo; the Fox feeds Qpon Bir and their Eggs; and the Deer eat the Herb~. One rnay conjelture ar the height of tMi Mountains hy this, when rhe Skies are not n~ clear, the \1oi.mtains fiaad., to abom the mid1fü in tbe Clot:&; :; forne of the1~1 loo~ a~ if rhey \1 1 ~/t