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xft, That all the Weftern coafts of the Northern countries were, for 

 the moft part, free from ice, occafioned from the winds and tides 

 chiefly coming from the Eaft, which experience proves. 



2d, That the ice comes originally from the Tartarian rivers, for 

 that the fea never freezes but where it is calm, and at the 

 fame time a great quantity of fnow falls. 



3d, That near the Seven Iflands navigators often meet with a 

 great N. E. fvvell, which proves that at fuch time the fea, to a 

 conliderable diftance to the N. E. is not locked up by the ice. 



4th, That the drift wood could not come to the Northward of 

 Spitzbergen, in cafe the feas between the North of Alia and 

 that ifland were frozen; whereas a great quantity of that wood 

 is drove on the North coaft of Iceland, which is a demon- 

 ftration that the currents come from the N. E. 



5th, That in fome of the trees the marks of the axe were very 

 plain, and the colour of the wood fo frefh, that they certainly 

 had not been fix months in the fea. 



-6th, That fome whole trees appeared with buds thereon, which 

 they think could not have remained fo frefh, if the trees had 

 been a year in the fait water. 



7th, That the Eaft of Greenland was now difcovered to the lati- 

 tude of 79 deg. and a half, that it probably extended further to 

 the N. N. E. which they look upon to be the caufe of the 

 ftoppage of ice between that coaft and Spitzbergen, and the 

 reafon why they never find a N. W. or Northerly fwell. 



8th, That generally all fhips, which had once got to the North 

 as far as 82 deg. met with little or no obftruclions from the 

 ice ; and more arguments to the fame purpofe. There were 

 fome, however, would rather make the trial between Spitz- 

 bergen and the land difcovered by Mr. Gillis. 



N. E. They knew nothing of the papers read before the Royal Society. 



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