An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spit2bttgen. 2 ; ,re r. coming down e,·ery moment, as in rhc J3t:: D at f. The reafon why thc lowermoíl Hills <lo not m ic, high, is becauíe fo very ~reat ones fiand ear them. A Ship with irs Maft and R.ig – g, is no more to be compared with thete ountaíns, than a fmall Houfe with a higb reeple. The Miles feem alfo to be very fhort, t when you go to walk thtm upan rhe l..anJ 9 ou find it quite another thing,. and you will n be rired; and alfo bc.:aufe of the rough– efs and fuarpnefs of the Rocks, and for want f a Patl-1, you will foon get warm be it never cold: a new pair of Shocs witl riot lair one n~ here. We went in the night, when it was :a very ear Sun-fhine, upon one of the Rocks near e Englip, Ha ven, about a MiJe long, to look rer a l·fhale that had got away from us; in emid<lle of this Harcour others were a row– g in their Long-Boats, which we could hard– y diícern: a grea~ part fell clown from one of efe Mountains, w hich founded ver y loud. he Mounrains look~d black, firip'd with veins f Snow. Ir was focalm that wecould hardly rceive any breeze of wind, and not very cold. he fhoar was very foil of Si:,i·llo,Jes, which ued fo that we could hear them a great way tf, as if fome Bulls had bellowed. In rhe Couptry we tra\'d thus; We take on~ wirh us two or more Guns and Lances, refill the Highwav-men the Bears, but one fqon ~ired> as I faid befort\ b~ca.ufe of thc · ftom:s