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precif'ices and fhomontoribs. 
THU NOIITH CAPE. 
CO"; 
Tins Cape forms the most nortnerly point of ih® j 
iient of Europe, and may be regarded as o'''?.- j iJ'*| 
subliniest wonders of nature. It is situated 
arctic circle, in seventy-one degrees ten minut& ^ 
latitude. It has been accurately described by a 1 
from whose account the following particnl- | 
ager. 
extracted. 
In approaching the Cape, a little before midiJ'oj^^jjfi 
iP 
r t htv 
rocks at first appeared to be nearly of an cqutu ^,,1 
tuitll they terminated in a perpendicular peak ; 
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nearer view, those within were found to be 
than those of the extreme peak, or point. rfjli'f; 
appearance was highly picture.sque. Tlie sea, j^tl '[ 
against tlii.s immovable rampart, which had wlth^'^ 
fury from the remotest ages, bellowed, and 
border of white froth. Ihis spectacle, equally 
and terrific, was illumined by the midnight^ jy;, 
the shade which covered the western side of | , ),ri£ 
rendered their aspect still more tremendous. 
of these rocks could not be ascertained ; but 
tiling was on so grand a scale, that a point ot ^ 
could not be afforded by any ordinary known 
On lauding, the party discovered a grotto, tl'i 
rocks, tlie surface of which had been washed > j 
thO waves, and having within a spring of fresh ' j 
only accessible spot in the vicinity was a hill, serno 
in circumference, surrounded by euornio'- . . 
paces m circumierence, surrounuea ny eiiun*— ^ 
From tlie summit of this hill, turning towards 
they perceived to the right a prodigious mouiitaii'' 
to the Cape, and rearing its sterile mass to the 
tlie left, a neck of land, covered with less elevat®^ J 
cJo»‘ 
against which the surges dashed with violence, 
bay, and admitted but a limited view of the ,i 
see as far as possible into the interior, oui'^ *'Vl’"^' 
climbed almost to the summit of the mountain'’ . ^,0^1 
most singular landscape presented itself Ijt '"V’ 
lake in the foreground had an deration of 
feet above the level of tlie scaj and on the 
cent, b|^t less lofty mountain, was anothei ' 
