steepenes

Updated: May 9, 2025

All along the coast lie very high mountains covered with snow, except in such places, where through the steepenes of the mountaines of force it must needs fall. This said streight is supposed to haue passage into the sea of Sur, which I leaue vnknowen as yet.

Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.