An account of several late voyages and discoveries

46 The SttotJfl P,1rt of :he Poyage and down by the ke, until that Momh w fpent, for fo early in the Year no body da venture himfelf into or amongít the Ice reafon of the ftormy winds; and fome 1 ri the Ice is tHll fixed, and frands firm, and th fore there is but a few i'Vhales feen, far und neath the Ice they cannot breathe. lnto the Ice we failed at 77 deirees and minutes, and drove wirh that íhett of Ice wards the South. In this Momh, and alfo· the following Month of MaJ, are the m M 1 hales teen here, which run towards thtE and we follow them all along by the Ice Spitz.bergen. Near to the Land fmaller Ice-fields areÍi becaufe the Ice cannot give wav by r~afon the Land, which caufeth greater grinding a break,ng. and opon that account f maller than is in rhe open Sea. Yet for all thi,, fi f?reater Ice~Mountains are feen there, tbat fü firm on the (boar, and never melt ar bott but iocreafe every year higher and higher, reafon of the Snow tbat falls on them, a then l:lains thac freezes, and then Snow a~ · alternately; and after this manner the lcy-hi increafe yearJy, and are never melted by heat of the Sun at the Top. Tbefc h:e-!\Iou change their firíl: colour in time by tht Air, R.ain and by the Clouds ; and the fairdr b! that can be,is íeen in the cracks of thefe 11.:e,hil From thefe fame ke-hills, oftentimes break great piece,, that fwim in the Sea, and is m_ compaét than the olher Ice by far. 1 once u o