44 VOYAGE INTO SPITZREKGEN, ETC. 



because the wind cannot blow tbem asunder, like fig. 5. 

 When the wind was north-west, or the skies were thick of 

 clouds, and it was stormy withal, there fell hail that was 

 round and oblong, all over full of prickles, and of the same 

 bigness you see it at fig. 6. 



There is many sorts of starry snow to be seen, with more 

 points, and some like unto a heart ; but they are all generated 

 after the same manner, by the eastern and northern winds. 

 The needly snow is generated by westerly and southerly 

 winds. If the snow is not dispersed by the wind, it falleth 

 down in clusters. 



But when the wind driveth it, stars or needles only fall, 

 every piece by itself, like the atoms in the sun. 



This much have I observed hitherto of the snow, and find 

 also that when it is cold, and a north wind blows, all sorts of 

 snow, both starry and of other shapes, fall as well in these 

 countries as in Spitzhergen. 



THE END OF TTTE SECOND PAKT. 



