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98 TRAVELS
a ftranger here, and the native of a civilized country. The houfe
was fituated on an eminence, and commanded on one fide a view
of the oppofite mountains, and the mafles of fnow with which
they are conftantly covered; on the other fide it afforded a prof-
pect to the Frozen Ocean, which here penetrates into the land,
and forms a confiderable gulf, near which the houfe in queftion
was built. We were delighted at finding ourfelves at fo fhort a
diftance from the object of our journey, which was to put an end
to our toils and hardfhips. The beautiful colour of the fea, and
the brilliant tranfparency of the waters, offered a moft pleafing
fpeétacle to our eyes ; but nothing, indeed, cheered our minds {fo
much as the idea of having fo far fucceeded in our enterprize.
The fight of mountains covered with fnow, and the name of the
Frozen Ocean, amidft a heat as great as that in Italy, heightened
the contraft between thofe oppofite circumftances, and reprefented
this place to our imagination as fomething fingular and extraordi-
nary, which was not to be met with in any other part of the
world. Even the very thought of having reached the Frozen
Ocean had fomething fublime in it: to enjoy it full farther, and
to make the moft of it, we determined to threw ourfelves into
the waves of this fea, and to recruit our exhaufted {trength by a
bath. The merchant gave us warning not to do this; nobody,
he faid, rifked bathing there, for fear of fharks: but we could not
refift the ftrong inclination that impelled us, and we did venture
to plunge into the water. This, however, was fo infufferably
cold, that it was not long before we came out of it, and we felt
our
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