of sea water. S15 
'' '^^d’ gieater part of which time we were be- 
'' '*'4 y’ . Upon which all the sea became so replenished 
'' of gellies, and forms of serpents, 
' hla*'?'^ snakes, as seemed wonderful ; some green, 
'' *^ovifj *^*^1 some yellow, some white, some of divers 
'' Nrt many of them had life; and some there 
' 3 ^ yards long ; wliich, had 
' tl* ^ could hardly have believed. And hereof 
' « Pre^**^* companies of the ships which were 
' te ® could draw a bucket 
' tt some corruption. In which voyage, 
' thereof, many of every ship fell sick, and 
' npace. But the speedy passage into our 
^ *^o«e * remedy to tlie crazed, and a preservative 
who Were not touched.” 
‘^^NgBLATION OF SEA WATER. 
JjtiNn 
^ much greater degree of cold to produce 
freshwater. It is, therefore, one oi 
'■ Hen _ “'cssings which we derive from this element. 
the assertion that salt water never freezes has 
Itii repeated experience, it is still certain 
^.^tid all die stores of nature locked up to ns 
'tt!; 'Hess', • ® exceptions, ever open 
\i'|the It is well known that at particular sea- 
''"w" the river St. Lawrence, the entrance 
If. saKi ‘c Sea, &c. are so much frozen over as to be 
Ip 1 '•**> ixv.. die OO IliUCll ilUAClJ UVCi M iU LH? 
Sj 'ti ships ; while the vast mountains and fields 
'^'It regions have, for ages past, been insur- 
Hs. .^metions to the daring researches of modem 
Nw^^HIv t • exceptions, however, will appear of 
** til importance to navigation, when the 
? itijHsons which are, in almost every region, open 
are considered 5 and this facility 
^ liari certainly not have been alForded, if 
...... , ... .... 
-‘S>n of ice i 
tion as that of 
1 liii t im., "t^tt'htcd of as easy a congelatic 
with salt. 
' '^'t em frozen seas different opinions 
k ’' il.' hlul Ute authority of Captain Cook 
" 1 >o^ Sool?''® by Bishop Watson, U 
** «6as • K Water may be piocured from ice foun< 
> but he observes that, nqtwiUistanding the 
