ICE. 



REMARKS 



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de, the whole land 



ered with eternal fnow 



the fli 



ot 



the fea, in the months of December and January, correfponding to 



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our June and July ; every unprejudiced reader will find it necefTary 

 to allow the temperature of the Southern hemifphere^ to be remark- 

 ably colder than that of the Northern ; ai 



d no one will, I bel 



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for the fu 



Hiflory of our Globe.. 



queil 



fad 



Natural 



But, as the'inquifitive reader may require of me a folution of 



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this curious and difficult pha^nomenon. 



I will venture to deliver 



Having maturely confidered every circumilance, I 



my opinion on the fubjed ; and hope, that if it prove not entirely fa- 

 tisfadory, it may,, however, contribute tow?-rds an explanation or 

 many things, which perhaps were- nbt before coniidered in this 



point of view.. 



find that, with other caufes founded on the apparent motion of the. 



fun, the abfence of land in the high latitudes of the. Southern he- 



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mifphere, creates this material difference in the temperature of the 

 air, between the correfponding degrees of latitude in tlie Ardic and. 



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the Antardic hemifpheres.. 



In the Ardic regions, from 60° to 66 i degrees and upwards, there 

 is much land to be met with, viz. Iceland, Spitzbergen, the North 

 of Norway and Sweden, all Lapland, all the Northern parts of 



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European and Afiatic Ruffia : beyond its Eaftern extremities in 

 Kamtchatka, are thofe numerous ifles lately difcovered by the 



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Ruffians 



