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WATER AND 



THE OCEAN 



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body of 



as had obliged us to run 



the Eaft; but where at 



this laft time no veflige of it appeared no more than at the place, 

 where Bouvet had placed his Cape Circuihcifion, we having failed 



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over the whole trad, which he fufpeded to be land ; nor could v/e 

 be miftaken in its fituation, as we had been on the fime parallel for 

 a confiderable time :. fo that it is impoffible to have miiTed the land, , 

 f any had exiiled, as we had frequent, opportunities to afcertain our 



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latitude.. 



Another circumflance worthy of notice is, that all ice floating in. 

 the fea yields frefh. water 



when melted*. PI 



taken 



colle6t fuch ice v/hich 



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)wever care muft be 

 gy and honeycombed 

 from the ap-itation of the waves, as this kind, of ice always contained 

 confiderable quantity of brine in the interlaces and fpungy cavities 

 which does not entirely drain from it by fuffering it to lie on the 

 deck of the fliip, and therefore is lefs fit for yielding good potable 

 water. This kind of ice may v/ell. be diftingui (bed from the mo 



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folid forts both by its appearance and by its fituation,, as it com- 



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monly is the outermoft at the approach of any large quantity of ice, 



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and therefore more expofed to the. agitation of the waves. To 

 leeward of large ice maffes, commonly loofe pieces of ice are drifting 

 of various fizesj thofe that are nearefl the large mafs, are commonly 





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the moil folid^ and therefore the moft proper, for fupplying 



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Of th 



pieces 



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up as can be con -» 



veniently. 



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