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pilot-major, pursued liis voyage, and renewed bis 
discovery of tbe White Sea, or Bay of St. Nicholas, 
a place totally forgotten since the days of Ohthere. 
The circumstances attending his arrival, exactly re- 
semble those of the first discoverers of America. 
He admired the barbarity of the Russian inhabi- 
tants ; they in return were in amaze at the size of 
his ship, they fell doTO and would have kissed his 
feet, and when they left him, spread abroad the 
arrival of ‘ a strange nation of singular gentlenesse 
and courtesie.’ He visited, in sledges, the court of 
Basilowitz II., then at Moscow, and laid the founda- 
tion of immense commerce to tliis country for a series 
of years, even to the remote and unthought of 
Russia. 
“ At the remote end of the isle of Maggeroe, is 
the North Cape, high and flat at top, or what the 
sailors call table-land. These are hut the continua- 
tion of the great chains of mountains which divides 
Scandinavia, and sinks and rises through the ocean 
in dift’erent places, through the Seven Sisters, the 
nearest land to the pole which we are acquainted 
with. The first appearance above water, from this 
group, is at Cherie Island, in lat. 71° 30 ', a most 
solitary spot, rather more than midway between the 
North Cape and Spitzhergen, or about 150 miles 
from the latter. Its figure is nearly round ; its sur- 
face rises into lofty mountainous summits, craggy, 
and covered with perpetual snow. One of them is 
truly called Mount Misery. The horror of this isle 
