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tafte after diffolution, cannot be produced from the water of the 

 ocean m . 



I will venture alfo to infift, that if fuch ice was actually frozen 

 from the ocean, it muft very quickly be melted, becaufe, as it 

 rnuft. confift of detached laminae intercepting the brine, the fea 

 would foon infinuate itfelf between the interftices, fo as to 

 caufe its diflblution. If any ice, therefore, mould be formed in 

 thofe parts of bays which are land-locked, have little or no 

 tide, and receive considerable quantities of frefli water, when 

 fuch ice is wafted fairly out to fea, I mould conceive that 

 it muft difappear in a very lhort time. 



■ The ice taken up by Captain Gook, during his circum-navigation 

 in high Southern Latitudes, was folid and tranfparent; being placed alfo 

 on the deck for the falt-water to drain off, the ice became wholefome 

 and palatable water. 



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