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496 : ALLISON’S VOYAGE FROM ARCHANGEL.
unknown to me; and this day they roafted another, which I faw, the flefh looking
black like a hare; but upon tafte, I liked no fuch rank venifon. The third ran down into
the hold, and could not be prefently found; but a -month after having played the’
thief with a piece of our beef, he was knocked on the head and being too lean for food,
was thrown overboard.
Thurfday, the eleventh, it {mowed much, but thawed as it fell; the wind at N. W.
with a ftrong gale.. I made all hafte poffible to get our rudder head mended, by
fixing a piece of plank on the one fide of it. It being bad weather, that was all we
could do in a day’s fpace, which exceeded not fix hours, and no better than twilight.
Neither could our men endure the air at fuch work, longer than a quarter of an hour,
without coming in to warm themfelves.
Friday, the twelith, I got another piece of plank on the other fide of the
rudder head, it proving handfome weather and very clear; whereby we perceived
fomething in the lower part of the rudder as»broken, but upon trial with our
poles and boat hooks, found only a {mall piece of the head bruifed, with damage incon-
fiderable.
Saturday, the thirteenth, it proved fair, but with fome fnow. I took the boat and
rowed into the bay, on the other fide of the point, and at the bottom of it I found a river
running in, but fo frozen as to hinder further difcovery of it; but by founding the
entrance, we found twelve foot water at half tide. Going afhore on the N. fide I faw
a greatrun of water falling into the bay thereby, near the fhore along a woody valley.
Not far from this place, I obferved the {now to lie in ridges, (fuch as we make upon land,
where we fow our winter corn), its furface being hard crufted with ice, with fome-
thing appearing above it like ftraw. There were little more than the bare ears without
any grain in them, four or five inches long: fo that thereby I had hold enough with my
hand to pull up the whole flalk, which was about three feet in length.
~ Twas under full belief that this was barley, but I could not fatisfy miyfelf, that any
had been reaped off there, feeing the fnow covered the ftubble. ‘lo the unbelieving
yeader I have only this to offer, to evince the poflibility of it, viz. that the foil was good,
as appeared by the plenty of wood near it, the ouzy fhore, and clayed bottom of the
bay; the place lying open to the S. and defended again{t the N. E. by the mountains,
Withal it mult be confidered that the fun is here about fix weeks above the horizon,
and the days before and after much longer than with us in England at thofe times.
‘That the bringing of this grain to perfection requires not above jourteen weeks after
feed time, in more fouthern regions. “At Narva in Livonia, I myfelf have known the
fame corn in the ear, withina month or five weeks after it appeared above ground.
Hereabout I found an anchoring place, but fo fteep that whoever ufes it, muft truft
chiefly to the fafts he makes on fhore. ‘There was another alfo at the bottom of the
bay, amile in; but the hafty departure of light made our difcovery incomplete. So
we returned allof us on board miferably cold. Icould not but obferve that as we
went and came by the fuel the wind was at N. W. but where the fhip rode, our men
on board had it all day eafterly.
Sunday, the fourteenth, it blew a hard ftorm at N. W., pulling home our belt bow-
anchor, until fuch time as the {mall bower and haulfers afhore aflifted ; and then by
all three fhe rode, till the gale was over, which was not before nine at night.
Monday, the fifteenth, the wind was at N. fair; and we hauled our fheet anchor
farther into the bay.
Tuefday, the fixteenth, we had a hard gale at E. N.E., fo that it pulled home our
fheet anchor. ‘There was much fnow all day and night; the wind after fome time
coming
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