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other circumftances f ) is probably the feafon when the -greatest 

 quantity of floating ice will be obferved. 



This feems to follow as a neceffary confequence from the puhh 

 being never made before Midfummer, and often a month later, 

 which is preeifely the time when the ice begins to break up in 

 the frefh water rivers, &c. 



I have accordingly minuted down, from feveral voyages into 

 high northern latitudes, the day on which navigators firfr. men- 

 t on feeing the floating ice. 



The refult of which is as follows : 



Sir Martin Frobifher on the 23d of June. Hackluyt, Vol. IL 

 > 77- \ 



Davis in his firft voyage, July ip. — In his third, July 2d. 

 Ibid. p. 99. 



Pet and Jackman on the 1 5th of July. Ibid. p. 447. 



Burrow, on the 21ft of July. Ibid. p. 277. 



Governor Ellis, July 5th. Voyage to difcover the North Weft 

 Paffage, p. 127. 



" The mores of Hudfon's Bay have many inlets or friths, 

 iU which are full of ice and fnow, and frozen to the ground. 

 M Thefe are broke loole, and launched into the fea, by land- 

 " floods, during the months of June, July, and Auguft." Ibid. 



" The fkft floating ice which is obferved on the coaft of 

 **' Labradore is a joyful prefage to the inhabitants of the 

 " approach of fummer." Lieutenant Curtis, in Phiiofophical 

 Tran factions. 



" The ice begins to break up the 1 8th of June." Danifh 

 Account -of Greenland. — Voyages au JVordf, VoL I. p. 167. 



f Viz. The nights .being lkorter, and the rigging not being fo fubjexft 

 t© be frozen. , 



" The 



