ABSTRACT

We sailed still on till we saw the Seven Islands, but could go no farther.

CHAPTER IV. Of the Air.

THE frost is unconstant in our country, but it is not so in Spitzbergen. In the month of April at seventy-one degrees, it was BO cold that we could hardly keep warmth within us. They say that in this month as also in May> the hardest frosts happen every year.