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îng itfelf into lakes and rivulets. In their 

 voyages they fometimes go into thefe iflands to 

 fetch frefli water, and hunt for game, which they 

 Ihoot in plenty, the pools abounding with many 

 forts of fea fowl: they alfo find on them fome 

 quadrupeds of the neighbouring countries, fuch 

 as the white Bear, an amphibious animal, with 

 fome others which are natives of thofe northern 

 parts. Thefe iflands are found in very deep 

 feas, and are many of them fuppofed to be fome 

 hundreds of feet deep in the water j fmce, other- 

 wife, their upper parts would not rife fo high a- 

 bove the water as they appear to do ; for, in 

 floating ice, a fmall proportion of its thickncfs 

 appears above the water. Thefe great maffes of 

 ice are certainly broken, or fome how or other 

 detached from the fhores or land in the higli 

 northern latitudes j otherwife, I think, no land 

 animals could be found on them : but how, or 

 in what manner, I cannot prefume to conje(5ture. 

 Some of them extend in length and breadth many 

 leagues. I believe thefe icey iflands have often 

 deceived northern voyagers, who have pretended 

 to the difcovery of iflands in certain latitudes and 

 longitudes, which never could be feen by after 



voyagers, 



