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Northeaft an hundred Leagues, known by the name of the 
White Mountains, upon which lieth Snow all the year, and 
is a Land-mark twenty miles off at Sea. It is rifing 
ground from the Sea more to thefe Hills, and they are 
inacceffible but by the Gullies which the diffolved Snow 
hath made; in thefe Gullies grow Saven Bullies, which 
being taken hold of are a good help to the climbing Dif- 
coverer; upon the top of the higheft of thefe Mountains 
is a large Level [4] or Plain of a days journey over, 
whereon nothing grows but Moss ; at the farther end of 
this Plain is another Hill called the Sugar-Loaf, to out- 
ward appearance a rude heap of maffie ftones piled one 
upon another, and you may as you afcend ftep from one 
ftone to another, as if you were going up a pair of ftairs, 
but winding ftill about the Hill till you come to the top, 
which will require half a days time, and yet it is not 
above a Mile, where there is alfo a Level of about an 
Acre of ground, with a pond of clear water in the midft of 
it; which you may hear run down, but how it afcends is a 
myftery. From this rocky Hill you may fee the whole 
Country round about; it is far above the lower Clouds, 
and from hence we beheld a Vapour (like a great Pillar) 
drawn up by the Sun Beams out of a great Lake or Pond 
into the Air, where it was formed into a Cloud. The 
Country beyond thefe Hills Northward is daunting terri- 
ble, being full of rocky Hills, as thick as Mole-hills in a 
Meadow, and cloathed with infinite thick Woods. 1 
1 The earliest ascents of the White Mountains were those made by Field and 
others in 1642, of which we have some account in Winthrop's Journal (by Savage, 
