An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen. 4~ ¡ wonder that upon the largeft lce-6elds high Mountains are fecn, as are fcen where [ce grinds and dafhes one againíl: the o- r. 1 am of opinion, that the lee melts to- ds che bottoms, for ene may fec it fpungy; elfe, if one would compute from the 'nning, it muíl: have reached the very und, "even in the middle of the depth of the bave feen in Spitz,berge,, white Ice that frozen quite curleci, it look'd jufr like Su- ·candy , was very h:.rd and thick , and am even with the Seas furface. The Ships not always in this danger of Squeezing, oftentimes there is I ittle or no Ice to be there, although you are a great way in place where it ufually is; but as foon as a darifes, you would admire from whence fo ta quantity of Ice fbould come in lefs then hours time. tthe greatefl: ke-fields of aU, Ships do not ays ride the fafeft; fince by reafon of the fs and the motion of the Sea, thefe Ice– s break, not wirhout danger. hen fuch lce-fields break they part afunder, ich cau[eth a Whirl-pool in the Sea, where the out-parts prefs to the Center, and by meaos rhe pieces of the Ice-fieJds raife felves np, and dafh and grind againfl: each 'ben wc carne-to 71 degrees in tbe Month of ·¡ we faw the fir{t Ice, aod fo wc failed up and