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114 TRAVELS
and thence precipitating down large maffes of ftone. Thefe in
their fall made a terrible crafh, as they ftruck againft every thing
that oppofed their way to the ocean. The rocks on thofe coatts-
are for the moft part compofed of gramite. The North Cape it-
felf is a mafs of granite, interfperfed with fome veins of quartz,
lying in the dire@tion of fouth and north. [In the femicircle
of rocks which form the Cape, is a point or prominence to-
wards the weft, where we found {now on a fpot not more than
two fathoms above the level of the fea; a circumftance which ap-
pears, in fome meafure, to confound the French theory refpecting
fnow at a certain height in the atmofphere, and indeed the whole
fyftem of Mairan, Buffon, and Baillie, refpeting central heat.
The only fpecies of birds that we could difcover on thofe rocks
was one of the genus motacilla. But at a {mall diftance from the
Cape, out at fea, the uria grille, fome fpecies of Jarus, and the
alca arética were very common; and I fucceeded in bringing
down feveral of thofe birds.
A gentle breeze fetting in from towards the north invited us to
leave the Cape, and enabled us to make ufe of our fail: but we
had fcarcely proceeded five or fix Englifh miles, when we were
overtaken by a calm, which obliged our people to have recourfe
to their oars. We did not return to Alten by the fame courfe,
but vifited whatever we underftood to be in any way worthy of
our notice on the iflands that fringe the coaft. We came firft to
the ifle of Maafo, which is inhabited by a clergyman, a merchant,
and thirty families befides. ‘The merchant received us with the
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