An account of several late voyages and discoveries
30 Th, S1eo•tl P11rt ti{ tbe P'oJ,gt colder then below ; yet above and below melted alike : Differendy from what I obfer fince in Spai11 in the Month of Dece»1ber i6 the wind being North•weíl', when the R.ain below about a qaarter of a League, yet abov the Mountains were all covered with Snow in the ftreight Line, one not higher tha~ other, as if they had been levell'd. In the Northern llave11 or Ba,, Jveth a large Mounrain, flat at top; this llfand is Jed the · Birds So11i, from the great nmnoo them that build and hatch there ; for whenr fly up, they make fo great a noife, that one hardly hear bis owo words: This is ma wirh /, in the Cut D. Befide thefe there are more Ijla11d1 nam~ thc. Map, as the Clifted Rocf<., and fuch other. The Rehenftld is a low Land, and ir is e fo from the Decr commonly feen there. I was informed that it is al\ Slats, that up edgewife, fo that it is very troubleform go on, it is ali over-grown with Mofs. I is a Hill upon it that Jooketh like fire. Behind the Rehenfeklare highMounrainsag' they are not pointed ac top, they lye as ít in a Line ; by the Rehe11felel runs up a R.iver · to the Country, and is called the Half 111oon· from its fbape. 0n the other fide of the Ri is a Mountain, ffat at che top, and full of e all filled up with Snow. Then cometh Liefde-Ba1 ( Ba1 of Love) where two H' ftand togetbcr very lite unto Spitzierge• }¡[ag
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