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in winter, diminish the heat of the ocean. The 

 following table, which contains experiments 

 taken without discrimination from several nau- 

 tical journals, confirms these assertions. The 

 fractions of degrees, by which the results are 

 expressed, arise from the reduction of the scales 

 of the thermometer of Reaumur or Fahrenheit 

 to the centigrade division. 



