An account of several late voyages and discoveries
·2 oc A S"pf'lement to upon an lílancl ovcr .tgainfl G,·one!tmd, which he calkd 1-!llid.fer/.:en 01· v./ i~: i:c Shin, bccauli:: of th~ Snow upan it; th~ uthcr on tilc Cüu. tincnt, calkd J-lttarf li.ric. He wintcr'd in thc lflam.1, but whcn che Scafon futford, paffcd into thc C(,):-,L:néut . . which bP.caufc of it~ [;rccnncts and flouriíl,in~ he cilb! Gro;;c!.r:ul. Thcucc Ju: (cm his Son to 0/,1:,, 1',,~{g,t·r King of ,\'orw:ir, to gct his Par~lon, which was cafilv grantcd, whcn he was in– form·d hy him of bis r.cw Difcovcry. \Vhcrc. upon divcrs Gcntlcmcn aclvcnmr'd to plant thcre. who multiplying, not long aftcr divi– rkd thc wholc Coumry into Eaficrn and '\V cílcrn, and built two Citics, G.,r¡le a111l Alhe. In .il.lbt was a Bi-íbop's Scc, ar.d a Ca. thcclral Church dcdic:itcd to St• .AnthonJ· ; thc Scat alfo of thc Viceroy fcnt thither from time to time hy thc Nor1verian1. Thev writc alfo of :i grcat Monaílery ~Jled of St T/J,m.11, ,vherein ,vas a Spring, whofc Water ·was fo hot't that ir dreffcd ali their Mcat ; and be· ~ng con,:cyecl into che Cc!Is and othcr Ro~!~s :n · Pipes, hca.tcd all the Monaftcry as JI ,r r12.d· hccn fo ·many Stovcs. They foy alfo, th:1:: this ~,fon.tikrv is buit all of Pumucc– ftonc~, ami that rh{s hot \Vatcr falJing upon thcm, m:~;cs with thc outer parts. ancl pro· Jucc!, a fi.)rt of daG1my 1\-tattcr, which tcr\'l:·; iatkad of l:.imc. ·· But
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