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horses, or walruses. He discovered also 
abundance of lead ore under a mountain, 
(by him named Mount Misery, from its 
truly wretched and forlorn appearance,) 
of which he brought upwards of thirty 
tons home to England. Here are also 
found coals of an excellent quality, and 
very fine virgin silver of different forms. 
Vid. Forster, p. 332. 
. Near to Cherry Island is a small spot 
called Gull Island, on which were like¬ 
wise found several veins of lead ore and 
coals. 
25th, Clear weather, and hard frost. 
26th, Clear weather, and a consider¬ 
able quantity of ice. 
27th, Some snow ; ice increasing. 
28th, At ten A.M. the ship was made 
fast to a large Iceberg, the lowest part 
of which was about ten, and the highest 
forty feet from the surface of the water; 
Its circumference was considerable. 
These floating mountains of ice, to 
