1832.] DISCOLOURED SEA. 1? 



a similar action either of the currents of the air or sea. Under 

 this supposition we must believe that the various organized bodies 

 are produced in certain favourable places, and are thence removed 

 by the set of either wind or water. I confess, however, there is a 

 very great difficulty in imagining any one spot to be the birthplace 

 of the millions of millions of animalcula and confervse : for whence 

 come the germs at such points ? the parent bodies having been 

 distributed by the winds and waves over the immense ocean. But 

 on no other hypothesis can I understand their linear grouping. 

 I may add that Scoresby remarks that green water abounding 

 with pelagic animals is invariably found in a certain part of the 

 Arctic Sea. 



