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I fhall now endeavour to (hew, that Dr. Halley was no more- 

 incredulous with regard to the poffibility of reaching high Nor- 

 thern latitudes, than Captain Wood was before the ill fuccefs of 

 his voyage on difcovery* 



Mr. Miller, in his Gardener's Dictionary, hath, the following; 

 paffage, under the article, Thermometer : 



" Mr. Patrick has fixed his thermometer to a {bale of ninety 

 " degrees, which are numbered from the top downwards, and 

 alfo a moveable index to it. The defign of this is to fhew, how 

 " the heat and cold is changed from the time k was laft looked 

 " upon, according to the different degrees of heat and cold in all 

 " latitudes. As by the trial of two thermometers, which have 

 " been regulated abroad ; the one by Dr.. Halley, in his late 

 " Southern voyage ; and the other by Captain Johnfon, in his 

 " voyage to Greenland '; the firft hath a heat under the equinoctial 

 " line, and the other a degree of cold in 88 degrees of N. latitude." 



I have taken fome pains to find out a more full account of this 

 voyage of Captain Johnfon's ; but have only met with the fol- 

 lowing confirmation of it perhaps, in the lit vol. of Monf. de 

 BufFon's Natural Hiftory °. 



" I have been affured, by perfons of credit, that an Englifh cap- 

 " tain, whofe name was Monfon, inftead of feeking a paffage to 

 " China between the Northern countries, had directed his courfe 

 li to the Pole, and had approached it within two degrees, where 

 " there was an open fea, without any ice." 



As the Captain Monfon mentioned in this paffage, reached ex- 

 actly the fame degree of latitude with Captain Johnfon, I fhould 

 rather think, that this is the fame voyage ; efpecially, as it is 

 well known, that the French writers- feldom trouble themfelves 

 about the orthography of foreign names.. 



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