An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen. 3 1 agJ 4 le111 BaJ, and thofe two Harboursare vcry uch like one another. • Thcn we come to lower Ground behind the 1,Ffe Harbo11r, where the Grafs was fo high, at ir CO\'Cred our ankles, as far as we went. Next is the Weihg,,tt, or the Str,,its of Rinde• pen. The Weihgatt is called fo from the Winds, for r,eihen fignifieth blowing ) becaufe a ,·ery rong South·wind bloweth out of it. On the ear-Haven, upon rhe Land, are all red ílones. Behind the ffeighatt followeth the So11th-~eft 11d, which is alfo low; it feemeth as if it was orned with fmall Hil!s: Then follow the feven ,mds which we could fee. We faw no Ships go any farther, neithcr ald I underfiand that ever any Ships did go rther, nor can they go fo far every year ro– ards the Eaft, becauíe of the..,danger of the e that fwimeth, and is brought from thence the wind and fiream• .(o May and J1111e is the befr fifbing in rhe Ice wcen the lfl,111á of John M~1en and Spitz– ie,,, In J11ly and A11,(11fi the W'hales run Eafr- ard by Spitzbergcn, we faw at the latter end any Whale, that run to the Weighatt. lt is un– own whether the Haven of this J,V~ighatt go– tbrough the Country, or no. But this is that Weighatt whereof fo many things are. ritten. More Ido not know of this Country. Rocks Snow and Ice-bilis wc find in abundance e, and the Creatures that li,e upon them, 1 l defcribe hereafter. CH A P.