to the Climate, The quick and ſurprizing Motion of the North-Light.is the Northern Light, or Aurora Borealis, which in the Spring of the Year, about the New Moon, darts Streams of Light all over the Sky, as quick as Lightning, eſpecially if it be a clear Night, with ſuch a Brightneſs, that you may read by it, as by Day-light.
In the midſt of Summer the Sun does not ſet.At the Summer Solſtice there is no Night, and you have the Pleaſure to ſee the Sun turn round about the Horizon all the 24 Hours; and in the Depth of Winter they have but little Comfort in that Planet, and the Nights are proportionably long; yet it never is ſo dark, but you can ſee to travel up and down the Country, though ſometimes it be neither Moonſhine nor Starlight: but the Snow and Ice, with which both Land and Sea is covered, enlightens the Air; or the Reaſon may be fetch'd from the Nearneſs of the Horizon to the Æquator.
The Air is wholſome in Greenland.The Temperament of the Air is not unhealthful; for, if you except the Scurvy