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at once congeal-*. We may therefore, with great propriety, think, 

 that the intenfe cold in the high Auflral regions has the fame eiFedl, 



fuddenly to congeal parts of the 



fpecially as, according 



our lafl obferyations, and thofe of other travellers, the Antarctic 

 climate is undoubtedly colder than the Northern hemifphere, in 

 correfponding degrees of latitude. 



The ingenious M. de Buifon -^ fays, ^* The navigators pretend 

 *' that the continent of the Auflral lands is much colder than that 

 ** of the Arctic Pole ; but there is not the leaf! appearance that this 

 *' opinion is vv^ell founded, and probably it has been adopted by 

 ** voyagers on no other account, than becaufe they found ice in a' 



'^ latitude, where it is feldom or ever to be met with in ou,r 

 ** Northern feas ; but that may be produced by fome peculiar 

 ** caufes." If we compare the meteorological obfervations made 

 at Falkland's Iflands, at about 51° South latitude, and communi- 



cated 



Alexander Dalrymple, Efq, in his Colkdiion 



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Voyages chiefly to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, with fuch as are 

 €very where made in Europe, in correfponding degrees of latitude 

 of the Northern hemifphere ; if we confider, that in Tierra del 



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Euego, Staten Land, and South-Georgia, from 54° to 56° South 

 latitude, and in Sandwich Land, in about 58° and 59° South lati- 



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tude. 



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■* See GmeVuis Fhyage to SlUria^ 



• f Buffon's Illft. Nat. vol. u p. 31:?, 



