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110 TRAVELS
earth. The whole land around it did not produce one tree or
fhrub; no, nor fo much as a blade of grafs: there was nothing
to be feen but naked rocks. The inhabitant of that houfe had
not any thing but what he brought from a diftance, not even fuel.
The fun for three months of the year is not vifible; and if, during
that fpace of time, the atmofphere were not illuminated by the
aurora borealis, he would be buried in profound darknefs—Dread-
ful place to live at! The only attraétion in thefe abodes is fifhing,
and the love of gain. The nearer one approaches the North
Cape, the more nature feems to frown: vegetation dies, and leaves
behind it nothing but naked rocks.
Proceeding on our voyage, we left on our right the ftrait formed
by Mageron, or Bare Ifland, and the continent. The vaft ex-
panfe of the Frozen Ocean opened to our left, and we arrived at
laft at the extremeft point of Europe, known by the name of the
Nortu Cape, exactly at midnight.
Siftimus hic tandem, nobis ubi defuit orbis.*
The North Cape is an enormous rock, which projecting far into
the ocean, and being expofed to all the fury of the waves and the
outrage of tempefts, crumbles every year more and more into
ruins. Here every thing 1s folitary, every thing is fteril, every
thing fad and defpondent. The fhadowy foreft no longer adorns
the brow of the mountain; the finging of the birds, which en-
livened even the woods of Lapland, is no longer heard in this
* Here then we ftood, and touch’d the earth’s laft point.
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