50 MEMOIR OF PENNANT. 



pilot-major, pursued his voyage, and renewed liis 

 discovery of the White Sea, or Bay of St. Nicholas, 

 a place totally forgotten since the days of Ohthere. 

 The circumstances attending his arrival, exactly re- 

 semble those of the first discoverers of America. 

 He admired the barbarity of the Russian inhabi- 

 tants ; they in return were in amaze at the size of 

 his ship, they fell down and would have kissed his 

 feet, and when they left him, spread abroad the 

 arrival of c a strange nation of singular gentlenesse 

 and courtesie.' He visited, in sledges, the court of 

 Basilowitz II., then at Moscow, and laid the founda- 

 tion of immense commerce to this country for a series 

 of years, even to the remote and unthought of 

 Russia. 



" At the remote end of the isle of Maggeroe, is 

 the North Cape, high and flat at top, or what the 

 sailors call table-land. These are but the continua- 

 tion of the great chains of mountains which divides 

 Scandinavia, and sinks and rises through the ocean 

 in different places, through the Seven Sisters, the 

 nearest land to the pole which we are acquainted 

 with. The first appearance above water, from this 

 group, is at Cherie Island, in lat. 74 30', a most 

 solitary spot, rather more than midway between the 

 North Cape and Spitzbergen, or about 150 miles 

 from the latter. Its figure is nearly round ; its sur- 

 face rises into lofty mountainous summits, craggy, 

 and covered with perpetual snow. One of them is 

 truly called Mount Misery. The horror of this isle 



