An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen. 3 3' be Ships do nflt focl thcfefmallerWavesbut y the grei c ones, th:H are c,11led Sea-Moun. 5, which heave anJ mouot che Ship wich · , but neverchelcfs íhe always keeps her ir way through thefo unp3thed Waves, which on<lerful to behold. na hard frorm the froth of the Sea drives dufr, and looketh as when the winddrivcth Snow aJong opon the Ice, oras the Dufl: of Earth does in dry weather, and you foe the every where to look like curltd Ice, that en it is a freezing is hindred from it by the 'd, all covered with a whire foam, and one ve blows over the precedent, with a great ring anct naife, as if a Water-mill were a g; and this fame noife the Ships make wi(e when they cut through the Sea. t is alfo to be obfervcd, that the Waves dafh inft one another when the wind changeth, crofsover through one another, with great ing over the Ships, before they move ali one the fame way. I did not \lbferve here the Sea-water fo clear, found lt fo falt as near the Ice ; it may be reafon of the lbal low ground or bottom, the many frefb R.ivers that run into it ; or aufe tbe Frofr cleareth the water more. · Concerning che manner of their Sailing ; they 1and change their Ways and Sails a,:cording they think fit. lf therc be a frefh Gale, they e ufeof all their SaiJs ; if a Horm, with the o lowermoft Sails, whereof they ca11 the firl1: Foo~ or Fore-fail,. the middltmoi\ S,:h,m,fer 01· D M,1in-S11il