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THE 



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regukrlj, which carries thefe large maffes of ice from each pole to- 



\yards the equinoctial line. 



I fliQuld here iinifli thefe nemarlcs on the ice, if it were not ne- 



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celTary to fay fomething concerning its formation. I know that 

 Mr. deBuFFON,, * Lomonosof -f and Grant z J were of opinion 



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that the ice found in the ocean,, is formed near lands, only from- 

 the freih water and ice carried, down into the fea by the many rivers 

 in Sibiria, Hudfon's Bay, &c. and therefore when we fell in with: 



fuch quantities of 



December, 1772,, I expeded we fhould 



foon meet with the land, from, whence thefe ice maffes had beea. 



detached. But being difappointed in the difcovery of this land,, 



though we penetrated beyond the Sy" twice, and once beyond 71° 



South latitude, and having; befides fome other doubts concerning 



the exiflence of the pretended Southern Continent, I thought' it 



neceflary to enqaire, what reafons chiefly induced the above authors- 



to form the opinion that the ice floating in the ocean, m.uft be" 



formed near land, or that an Auftral land is abfolutely requiflte for 



that purpofe §, and having looked for their arguments, I find they 



amount'. 



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^ De Buffon nyiolrel^aJureUe^ edit, in ismo^tom, i. p. 3135 319. and torn. 2. p. 91, lOO, 



f Lomonofof Memoire on the ice mountains of the Northern ^ Sea^ in the- SweJiJ/:^ memoirs of the 

 academy of Stockholm^ voL XXV. Germ, edit. 



% Crantz's hiftory of Greenland, p. 18, 42. 



§ BufFon Hlfl:. Naturelle, torn, i, p, 314. fpcaks of the Aviltral Lands as-neceflaryfor the 



formation of the ice, 8c topit 2. p. 99. 



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