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quantity ftill liquid, which was fo fliarp and acid^ 

 that a drop of it could hardly be endured on the 

 tongue : this fmall quantity was preferved to 

 lharpen their liquors, and went almoft as far aS; 

 the whole barrel would have done, had it conti- 

 nued unfrozen, Olive oil is faid to become fo 

 hard in that country, that they cut it out of the 

 jars with chifel and mallet -, and it is dangerous 

 to ftand in the way of its fplinters, for they cut 

 the eyes like glafs. The fame curious perfon 

 alfo gave me fome account of the large iOands 

 (as they are called) of floating ice. which fre- 

 quently appear in that trad of fea our fhips 

 make between the north of Scotland and the 

 fouthermoft cape of Groenland, ia their way to 

 and from Hudfon's Bay. Theik: mafîès of ice, 

 he fays, might be taken for ]a?;d covered with 

 fnow, did they not find the n in places, which 

 they know, from lonrr experience, to be open 

 feas. Some of theie iflands appear high and 

 craggy like i jcics, having lower parts or plains ; 

 and / uen the warm ieafons are coming on, the 

 fun meits the fnow and ice, and caufes cafcades 

 to fall from the craggy high parts into the 

 lower, v/here the water fettles ia hollows, form- 

 ing 



