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WATER AND TTHE OCEA N. 



lands, viz. Nova Zemla, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Beering's-Illand, 

 &c. &c. that though none is growing there, the unfortunate indi- 

 viduals, that are obliged to fpend a winter there, however, are fuf-, 

 ficiently provided with this moil: neceffary commodity.. In all the 

 Southern feas, there is no drifting wood to be met with. The; 



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French fearched a great extent of the fhores of the Falkland lilands, 

 with great care, but found not above one or tv/o pieces of wood, 

 thrown up by the fea 5 nor did we fee any on the ifland of South- 

 Georgia : all which fufficiently evinces the truth of the above af- 



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iertion. 



The argument, therefore, is now reduced to this,, ** That fait -- 



does not freeze at all. 



if it does, the ice contains, briny 



" particles." But we have already before produced numberlefs in- 

 fiances, that the fea does freeze; nay, Crantz* allows, that the: 

 flat pieces of ice are fait, becaife they were congealed from fea^water .^ 

 We beg leave to add a few decifive facfts relative to the freezing oF 

 the fea. B aren tz -f^ obferves in the year 1 596, September the 1 6th,. 

 the fea froze two fingers thick, and next night the ice was tis thick 



the middle of September; what e:ffed: 



again. This happened in 



then mufl the intenfe froft of 



ght in January 



prod 



? 



When. 



* Crantz. p. 31. 



•j- Recucil des Voya.gcs civl ont fcr4_.n FEtJibllffeir>e»t de laCompagnie des Iiidss Orka- 



talcs. vol. I. 



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