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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. VJL Tbt Author fails to the Coaft of Greenland, lands in Iceland, and afcends Mount Hecla, when he is expofed to great Danger by an Irruption if that burning Mountain, Other Curio/itiei in the IJland defcribed, 'with fomt Account of the Inhabitants. The Author fails on his Return tt Denmark, and arrives at Copenhagen. TH E fummer was now far advanced, it being the latter end of Auguft, and the cold increafing, we began to think of returning home, and therefore weighing, held on a fouth-weft courfe, but the wind fhifting to the fouthward, obliged us to make the coaA of Greenland, where we dropped anchor, near a French and 'Dutch fleet employed in the whale fifhery. The fhips feldom lie far from the fhore, for the whales which, are caught in the fame manner as we took the fea-horfes, are like them commonly found near the land. When they are caught they are cut to pieces, and the blubber being taken out, is put into large kettles, and melted to oil in huts erefted for that purpofe along the fea-fhore. During our flay here, I faw one whale that yielded 350 pounds weight of good bone, which together with its oil, muft have afforded a confiderable profit. Our arrival in this place proved very fortunate forourZ/Viaprifoners, who had for fonic timepined away for want of whale oil, they being able to eat nothing, unlcfs it was foaked in it, and our ftore was intirely exhaufted: but for their fakes we here took in a frefh fupply. Having ftaid two days on this coaft, we took, the advantage of a north-eaft wind, and proceeded on our voyage, but being overtaken by a florin, we fleered to the coaft of Iceland, On, our approaching that iftand we heard a dreadful noife at land, like the firing of feveral pieces of ordnance, after which we faw flames iffue in, abundance from mount...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458910950 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458910954 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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