l82 STUDIES OF NATURE." 



has, in all Climates, a powerful tendency to conci- 

 liate aflfedtion between man and man. They in- 

 formed him, that this fame Strait of Waigats, 

 which was then difgorging fuch immenfe quanti- 

 ties of ice, would be entirely Ihut up toward the 

 end of Odober, and that it would be poflible to 

 go into Tartary over the ice, by what they called 

 the Sea of Marmara. 



It is incontrovertible, that all thefe effeds which 

 1 have been relating, can proceed only from the 

 effufions of the ices which furround the Pole. I 

 fhall here remark, by the way, that thefe ices, 

 which flow with fuch rapidity to the north of 

 America and of Europe, towards the months of 

 July and Auguft, greatly contribute to our high, 

 equinodial tides, in September ; and that when 

 their effufions are flopped in the month of Odo- 

 ber, like thofe of Waigats, this too is the time 

 when our Tides begin to diminifh. 



I may now be aiked, Why the tides come from 

 the North and the Eaft to the north of America, 

 and of Europe ; and from the South, on our 

 coafts, and on thofe of America which are under 

 the fame Latitudes ? 



I might fatisfy myfelf with having faid enough 

 to demonftrate, that all the Tides do not proceed 



from 



