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are driven about by the variable Winds and Currents 
in the Months of June , July-, and Auguft , rather in- 
creafmg than diminifhing in Bulk, being furrounded 
(except in Four or Five Points of the Compafs) with 
l'maller Ice for many Hundred Leagues, and Land 
covered all the Year with Snow, the Weather being 
extreme cold, for the moft part, in thofe Summer 
Months. The fmaller Ice that almoft fills the Streights 
and Bays, and covers many Leagues out into the Ocean 
along the Coaft, is from Four to Ten Fathom thick, 
and chills the Air to that Degree, that there is a com 
ftant Increafe to the large Ifles by the Sea’s walking 
againft them, and the perpetual wet Fogs, like fmali 
Rain, freezing as they fettle upon the Ice ,* and their 
being fo deeply immerfed under Water, and fuch a 
fmali Part above, prevents the Wind’s having much 
Power to move them : For though it blows from the 
North- weft Quarter near Nine Months in Twelve, 
and confequently thofe Ifles are driven towards a 
warmer Climate, yet the progreflive Motion is fo 
flow, that it muft take up many Years before they 
can get Five or Six hundred Leagues to the South- 
ward ; I am of Opinion fome Hundreds of Years are 
required ; for they cannot, I think, diflolve before 
they come between the 50th and 40th Degree of La- 
titude, where the Heat of the Sun confuming the 
upper Parts, they lighten and wafte in Time: Yet 
there is a perpetual Supply from the Northern Parts, 
which will fo continue as long as it pleafes the Au- 
thor of all Beings to keep things in their prefent 
State. 
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