IR DISCOLOUKED SEA. [crrAi-. i. 



able places, and are thence removed by the set of either wind or 

 water. I confess, however, there is a verj' great diflicnlty id 

 imagining- any one spot to be the birthplace of the millions of 

 millions of animalcula and conferva? : for whence come the 

 germs at such points? — the parent bodies having been distri- 

 buted by the winds and waves over the inmiense ocean. But on 

 no other Iiypotiicsis can I understand their linear grouping. I 

 may add that Scoresby remarks, that green water abounding willi 

 pelagic animals is invariably found in a cerluin part of iho Arc- 

 tic Sea, 



