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Sea. These waves run a great way, so that you may sec 

 between them at a great distance. 



If any ships be in your company, oftentimes you cannot 

 see them. 



These waves are a great deal larger than in the North Sea, 

 and have also greater power when they fall over, but do not 

 dash so easily over the ships as they do in the North Sea. 



The waves in the North Sea are presently lay'd after a 

 storm, but the commotion of these lasteth often to the third 

 day ; if it be never so calm, the ships are moved very vio- 

 lently, that you cannot walk, sit, or lie ; it is best to keep in 

 the middle of the ship, for before and behind the sea beats 

 hard against them. The sails are driven against the masts, 

 and have no steadiness from the wind. If, in a brisk gale 

 of a full wind, the sails are all full and round, the ship sails 

 best upon the sea. 



There is as great difference in ships as to sailing, as there 

 is in horses concerning easiness and swiftness ; the motion of 

 the ships is therefore different : the stilness and quietness, 

 when nothing is tumbled up and down in the ship, further- 

 ing also the sailing very much. 



The ships swim something higher in the sea than they 

 do in fresh water, for there is almost a foot difference in a 

 ship with the same loading. 'Tis generally agreed upon, 

 that one may see a ship in a calm sea three, or three and a 

 half German miles off, and beyond that distance the sea loseth 

 itself in the air, and the air in the sea. If a ship saileth on 

 the main sea at one and a half German miles' distance, you 

 have lost the sight of half the ship ; at two miles, you see 

 only the uppermost mast ; at three miles, you see only the 

 flagg ; and when it goeth farther, you have quite lost it. Land 

 and mountains may be seen at a great distance at sea ; we saw 

 Spitzhergen at twelve miles' distance off at sea ; the country 

 look'd like a black cloud full of white streaks. Near the ice 

 of this sea it is coldest whore the waves arc quiet, and the 



