Of _Bears_ there are none in the Country, but sometimes they are brought down from the North upon Ice, while they follow _Seales_, and so are carried away. Two in this Manner came over, and landed in the North of _Island_ this last Year, 1662. No _Conies_, or _Hares_, but of _Foxes_ great Plenty, whose White Skins are much desired, and brought over into this Country. The last Winter, 1662, so cold, and lasting with us in _England_, was the mildest they have had for many Years in _Island_. Two new Eruptions with Slime and Smoak, were observed the last Year in some Mountains about Mount _Hecla_.[322] [322] _A Burning Mountain in_ Island. Some hot Mineral Springs they have, and very effectual, but they make but rude Use thereof. The Rivers are large, swift, and rapid, but have many Falls, which render them less Commodious; they chiefly abound with _Salmons_. They sow no Corn, but receive it from Abroad. They have a kind of large _Lichen_, which dried, becometh hard and sticky, growing very plentifully in many Places; whereof they make use for Food, either in Decoction, or Powder, some whereof I have by me, different from any with us. In one Part of the Country, and not near the Sea, there is a large black Rock, which Polished, resembleth Touchstone, as I have seen in Pieces thereof, of various Figures. There is also a Rock, whereof I received one Fragment, which seems to make it one kind of _Pisolithes_, or rather _Orobites_, as made up of small Pebbles, in the Bigness and Shape of the Seeds of _Eruum_, or _Orobus_. They have some large Well-grained White Pebbles, and some kind of White _Cornelian_, or _Agath_ Pebbles, on the Shore, which Polish well. Old Sir _Edmund Bacon_, of these Parts, made Use thereof in his peculiar Art of Tinging and Colouring of Stones. For Shells found on the Sea-shore, such as have been brought unto me are but coarse, nor of many Kinds, as ordinary _Turbines_, _Chamas_, _Aspers_, _Laves_, _etc._ I have received divers Kinds of Teeth, and Bones of Cetaceous Fishes, unto which they could assign no Name. An exceeding fine Russet Downe is sometimes brought unto us, which their great Number of Fowls afford, and sometimes store of Feathers, consisting of the Feathers of small Birds. Beside _Shocks_, and little Hairy _Dogs_, they bring another sort over, Headed like a _Fox_, which they say are bred betwixt _Dogs_ and _Foxes_; these are desired by the Shepherds of this Country. Green _Plovers_, which are Plentiful here in the Winter, are found to breed there in the beginning of Summer.