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on the fuppofition that thofe folid ices extend, in 

 winter, from the Pole to the 65th degree, the float- 

 ing ices detached from the icy Continent, perform 

 a courfeof 375 leagues, in the two firft months of 

 fpring. It is not the wind whicli drives them 

 fouthward, for the fiOiing veffels which meet them 

 have frequently fair winds ; variable winds would 

 carry them indifferently to the North, to the Eafl, 

 or to the Weft : but it is the Current, from the 

 North, which carries them conftantly, every year, 

 toward the Line, becaufe the Pole, from which 

 they take their departure, is more elevated, 



V. The fécond experiment, of the fame kind, for 

 the South Pole, is extraded from Captain Cook's 

 Voyage, the loth December, 1772. '' The loth 

 "'December, 8 o'clock in the morning, we difco- 

 " vered ices to our North-Weft;" to which Mr, 

 Forjler adds : "and about two leagues to wind- 

 *' ward, another mafs, which refembled a point of 

 " white land. In the afternoon, we pafled clofe by 

 *' a third, which was cubical, and was two thou- 

 *' fand feet long, two hundred feet broad, and, at 

 *' leaft, two hundred feet in height." Cook was 

 then in the 51ft degree of South Latitude, and two 

 degrees weft Longitude from the Cape of Good- 

 Hope, He faw a great many more, up to the 

 17th January, 1773 5 but being at that epocha, in 

 the Latitude of 65 degrees, 13 minutes. South, he 



was 



