An account of several late voyages and discoveries

• 5 z The Seeo11d P,irl of ,be Yoy11ge Hes, as l have before obíerved in thc Chapter of the Ice. In the two laft Summer Montlu, chieílr in 1111¡, b~fore t~e 11'eighatt, che Sun füin'd fo warm, that the Tarr of the Ship between the Scames, where the wind couJd not come at ir melted. ' There is hardly any difference of Cold be, tween Night and Day, yet at Night when 1he Sun {hineth, ít (eemeth to one that rightly confidereth it, as if it was only clear Moon, light, fo that you may look upon the SL4n, 31 well as you can upan the Moon; fo that thcre, by one may difünguilb Night and Day from each other. Increafe of Cold, and changing of the Com¡lafs, we did not obferve as fara¡ we went. lt is alfo to be obferved, that the f rofr d not let a dead Body be confumed eafily in 1h Ground, ¡sis airead y obfen•ed, in the Chapter of the Defcription of Spilzbcrgen. The fecond day of A11,g11P, in our Vora homeward, we obferved the Sun firfr to fer. Concerning the Meteors generated in t~ Air, 1 obferved that the Rime fell clown in tbt (hape of fmall Needles of Snow into the Se and covered it as if it was f prinkled ali ov~ with Duíl:: thefe fmall Needles iocreafed mori ~nd more, and iay as they feJJ crofs one ov the other, and looked very Jike a Cobweb¡ they are form'd by the cold of thc Air, ao~ increafed ro tbat degree, that the Sea feemed covered by them, as with a Skin, or a tender Ice,