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Excerpt from The Wonders of Nature and Art, Vol. 3: Being an Account of Whatever Is Most Curious and Remarkable Throughout the World
Tains which the fea is covered and which rife to an altoniihing height and the well: fide towards Davis's Streights, confif'ts of lzttle more than confufed heaps of rocks, the fummits of which are covered with everlafting ice and fnow. However, the fouthern part is much bet ter known, and 'as far as the Dani?l colonies have penetrated, the climate is not infupportable. During the fummer feafon, which laf'cs from the end of May to the middle of September, the fun fhines bright and very warm; over the main land no cloud can be feen, the weather being pleafant and always clear, though the i?ands are covered with a damp n, which throughout the whole year, ex'cept in the month of Auguft, ho ver over the iilands. The rains that fall here are neither frequent nor heavy; and in this climate it feldom thunders. However, thefe favourable circumflances, Wltll refpeé't to the weather, are true only of the fouthern parts of the country, fubjeét to the Danes; for to the northward of the fixty-eighth degree of latitude, the cold in win ter is fo excefhve, that the ?rongeft Frenchi bran dy will freeze near the fire-fide. As the weather is in this cllmate' very calm, the ice in the bays between the iflands, is not difiurbed till the end in the creeks it does not e elofe of May. From June 3 continually above the hori and confequently during that térrn, they have no night bht in Winter the-fun is invifible to the Greenlanders, and their day is nothing more than the morning and evening twilight, which do not hit above two hours.
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