An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitzbergen. 47 ,e of theíe pieces tbat was curiouíly workt d carved, as ir wc:re, by rhe Sea, Jike a urch with arched Windows and Pillars, rhe ors and Windows hung fu)J of lcikles, on eincide thereof I fa w rhe delicateO: blew that n be imagined; ;t was bigger than our Ship, d fomcwhat higher than our fiern, but how pic was under water, I cannót exal'tly teJJ. r roto the i'dufcle-HJt1m, a great Jce.hill me driving towards our Ship, that was as 'gh as our Poop, and went fo deep under wa- ., that it took up our Anchor, wbich lay fif- nFathoms deep. 1 have alfo feen feveral hers, and of other figures, vfr,, round and urfquare Tables, wirh round and b)ew Pil• rs underneath, as in Plate B marked with f: eTable was very fmooth and plain at the top, d white with the Snow; at the fides hung .wn agrcat m1ny lcikles clofe to one another, e a fringed Table-cloth ; I believe that oear rty Men rnight have fat about ir. 1 have feen thefe Tables with one 1-'oot, and with two three Pillars, and aqundance of Se11/es íwam ut ic. The Diíhes that furnifued this Table~ ere a pi~ce of Ice likt! an Horfes Head, and a an, I doubt they were but falt. You mufr fmt 1hat this Ice becometh very fpungy by dathing of the Sea, and from thence grows t, like Sea-water, and thence alfo changetb cotour, viz,. from the Sea and Rain-water ixt with it; for you tliall commonly fee the ater look blew or ycllow, if you walk under ter> with your Eyes open, and look upwards. The