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miles seem also to be very short, but when you go to Avalk 

 them upon the land, you find it quite another thing, and you 

 will soon be tired ; and also because of the roughness and 

 sharpness of the rocks, and for want of a path, you will 

 soon get warm be it never so cold : a new pair of shoes will 

 not last long here. 



A\^e went in the night, when it was very clear sunshine, 

 upon one of the rocks near the Eiiglish haven, about a mile 

 long, to look after a icliale that had got away from iis : in the 

 middle of this harbour others were a rowing in their long- 

 boats, which we could hardly discern ; a great part fell down 

 from one of these mountains, which sounded very loud. The 

 mountains look'd black, strip'd with veins of snow. It was 

 so calm that we could hardly perceive any breeze of wind, 

 and not very cold; the shear was very full of sea-horses, 

 Avhich roared so that we could hear them a great way off, as 

 if some bulls had bellowed. 



In the country we travel thus : we take along with us two 

 or more guns and lances, to resist the highway-men the 

 bears ; but one is soon tired, as I said before, because of the 

 stones and the loose ice, whereon it is very troublesome to 

 walk. 



As many as I have seen of these mountains are situated 

 thus : the highest are from the Foreland to the Muscle Haven 

 (or Muscle BayJ, after the Foreland follow the seven Ice- 

 mounts, which are very high mountains, and they are called 

 so from the ice-hills that fill up the valleys, or lye between 

 the rocks. These mountainous rocks are not so sharp or 

 pointed at the top as the two foremost rocks at the Haven of 

 Magdalen are. Then cometh the Haven of the Hamburgers, 

 Magdalen, the English and Danish Harbour, and, at last, the 

 South Hacen. At the Magdalen Haven the rocks lye in a 

 round or semicircle ; at each side, by one another, stand two 

 high mountains that are hollow within, as if they were dug- 

 out after the fashion of a breast-work, with points and cracks 



