An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to Spitibergen. 5 7 umb. 4. -When it is very cold and not win- wicha1, the Snow falleth like unto thc Stars a clt1fier, b~caufe the Wind cannot blow em 11ftmder, Jike Numb. 5. When the VVind as North-H-'cfl, or the Skies were thick of lcuds, and it was ftormy withal, there fell Hail at was ronnd and oblong all over foil of ickels, and of the fame bigncfs as you fee it Number 6. There is many more íorts of fiarry Snow to feen, with more Points, and fome like unto earr, but they are ali generated after the fame nner, by tht: Eaftern and Northern Winds. e needly Snow is ger,erated by Wefterly d Southerly Winds : lf the Snow is not fperfed by the Wiad, it falleth down in cluft- . Bnt when the Wind driveth it, Stars or Need- only fali , every piece by it fclf, like the oms in the Sun. Thus much have I obferved hitherto of the ow, ~¡,J find thatalfo when it is cold and a rth Wind btows, all forts of Snow, both rry and of other {hapes, fall as well in theíe untries as in Spi1zherge11. The Enel of the Second Pat.