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face of the fea, it would remain equally" incomprehenfible, how 

 thefe enormous floating ice-malTes could be formed, if they had 

 not land for a point to fix on, and from whence they are fevered 



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by the heat of the fun 



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The two ihips, which the India Com- 

 m the difcovery of the Auftral lands. 



47 or 48° South latitude, but at no great dill 



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from land ; which they difcovered, v/ithout being able to ap 



** p roach it. 



This ice, therefore, mufl' have come from the inte^ 

 " rior parts of the lands near the South Pole, and we mull conjee- 

 " ture, that it follows the courfe of feveral large rivers, waihing 

 '* thefe unknown lands, in the fame manner as the rivers Oby, the 

 *■* Yenifea, and the other great rivers which fall into the Northern 

 *** fea, carry the ice-maffes, which flop up the freights of Wair- 

 '* gats for the greater part of the year, and rendcx- the Tartarean 

 «' fea inacceifible upon this courfe." 

 analogy between the rivers Oby,. Yenifea 



Before we can 



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and the reft which fall 



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Northern 



and thofe coming from the interior parts 



of the Auftral lands, let us compare the fituation of both coun 

 tries, fuppofmg the Auftral lands really to exift. The Oby, Ye 



nifea, and the reft of the Sibirian 



rivers, falling down 



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Northern 



have their fources in 48 



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North 



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where the climate 



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.pable of producing 



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kinds. All the rivers of this 



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rivers 



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