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and other Northern nations, who fometimes undertook long voy- 



The Northern ocean was called by the ancients the frozen , 



ages 



tliQ dead, the lazy, ^nd immoveaMe fea : fometimes they gave it the 

 name mare croaiumy the concrete fsa., and mon'marufa, the dead 



fei *. 



And, what is very remarkable, in all the Northern cold 

 countries, the froil: fometimes is fo intenfe, that all the waters be- 

 come fuddenly coagulated into a kind of pafte or doughy and thus 



at 



* DioNYS. Pkriegetes. v. 32, 33. 



Uonov l^iv Kc^XzHcri nEnHFOTA ts, KPONION tb 



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Orpheus Argonautic. v. 1079, 1080. 



Uonov YnEPBOPEHN^EjoTTsj, NEKPHN te ^ot,Xx^<7sci. 



STRAI30, lib. iu p. m. 71. fays, after Pytheas of Marfeilles, that near Thule, to the 

 North, the fea is neither land, nor fen, nor air, but a concrete of them all, like fea-limgs ; 

 which plainly proves, that the famous traveller of Marfeilles had heard fomc account con- 

 cerning the congelation of the {c'ci^ which, when compared with the other accounts, and 

 the names given to this North fea by the ancients, are together a llrong proof, that the 

 v.hole account originated with "the Gaelic and Celtic nations ; for it is in their language, 

 that Vv'c mull look for the meaning of thofe names, which are found in Pliny, viz. Morima- 

 rufa^ the dead fea ; Morm the Welch is the fea, and mar^x^^ dead\ fo that iiior-marvj fignifies 

 the dead fea \ in theJrifh, mulr-croinn is the coagulated^ thicJ:^ concrete ic'^ ^ (fee Toland's 

 Hiilcry of the Druids, in the CoUeftion of feveral Pieces. London, 1726, 8vo. voL i, 

 p. 1 49.) So that the Cronian fea was not called from Cronus or Saturn, but from its con- 

 , frcalcd, coagulated Hate. 



Tacitus, de Mor. Germ, c- 45. Trans Sviionas, aliud mare^/grir;?/, ac prope ^W;^///;;/- 

 quod extremus cadcntis jam folis fulgor in ortus edurat, adeo clarus, utfiderahebetet, 



Plinius. Hift. Nat. lib. iv. c. 13. Septcntrionalis Oceanus ,• Amalchlum twxsx^zc'x- 

 ta^^us adpellat, a Paropamifo amne, qua Scythiam alluit, quod nomen ejus gentis lingua 



fignificat congcIatu?7t. Philemon Morhnarufam a Cimbris vocari, hoc eft mortuummarc^ ufque 



p,d Promontorium Rubeas : ultra deinde Cronhm. Et cap. 16. A Thule unius dici naviga- 

 tione marc concrctum.^ 2i nonnuUis Cronluju adpellatur. 



