36 o appendix. 
7. And for a further Confirmation of 
this, there was jufl: by the Bay where I 
made the Obfervations, a narrow Creek or 
Dock, as broad as two fmall Boats, and as 
long as three of them 5 which Creek being 
out of any Degree of the Stream, there was 
no Ice at its Bottom, but the Ice on the Top 
was much thicker, than that on the Surface 
of the Water in the adjoining Bay, which 
were only parted by a narrow Neck of Land 
about two Yards wide. 
Observation XIII. 
HAT the Warmth of the Earth at 
fome Depth under Ground, has an 
Influence in promoting a Thaw, as well as 
the Change of the Weather from a freezing 
to a thawing State is manifeft from this Ob- 
fcrvation, viz. Nov. 29, 1731, a little Snow 
having fallen in the Night, it was by eleven 
the next Morning, moftly melted away on 
the Surface of the Earth, except in feve- 
ral Places in Bujloy-Park, where there were 
Drains dug and covered with Earth, where 
the Snow continued to lay, whether thofe 
Drains were full of Water or dry, as alfo 
where 
