18 DISCOLOURED SEA. [cmar. 1. 
able places, and are thence removed by the set of either wind or 
water. I confess, however, there is a very great difficulty in 
imagining any one spot to be the birthplace of the millions of 
millions of animalcula and conferve: for whence come the 
germs at such points?—the parent bodies having been distri- 
buted by the winds and waves over the immense ocean. But on 
no other hypothesis can I understand their linear grouping. I 
may add that Scoresby remarks, that green water abounding witii 
pelagic animals is invariably found in a certain part of tle Arc- 
tic Sea. 
