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IC£. ' the principle of analogy cannot be applied indifcriminately in both 



hemifpheres, and that one thing may be true in the Northern hemi- 



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fohere, which is quite otherwife in the Southern, from reafons not 



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yet known or difcovered by us : or we mufl think that Crantz and 

 Others are miftaken, who,fuppofe the ice floating in the ocean 

 to be fait. 



-The next remark is, that fait water does not freeze at all, or if it 

 does it. contains briny particles. Mr. de Buffon *, the mofl ingeni- 



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©US and the mofl elegant writer of Natural Hiftory, tells us, " that 

 "^.the fea between Nova Zemla and Spitzbergen under the 79^ 

 ** ' North latitude does not freeze, as it is there confiderably broad, 

 ^* and that it is not to be apprehended to find this fea frozen not 

 ** even under the pole itfelf, for indeed there is no example of hav- 

 " ing ever found a fea wholly frozen over, and at a confiderable 

 ** diftance from the ihores; that the only inftance of a fea entirely 

 *' frozen is that of the Black Sea, which is narrow and not very 

 ** fait, and receiving a great many rivers coming from Northern 

 " regions, and bringing down ice; that this fea therefore fome- 

 '" times freezes to fuch a degree, that its whole furface is congealed', 

 -*' to a confiderable thicknefs; and, if the hiflorians are to be 



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credited, was frozen in the reign of Emperor Conftantine Cop 



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ronymus 



■* Jbid vol. I, p. 318. 



