25 a Mr. nairne on Ice of Sea Water. 
January 29, 1776. 
Veffel. 
Time. 
t 
mmerfed 
'herm. in 
the open 
Effc£ls, Ac. 
1 herm. 
Air. 
Decanter, 
jelly glafs, 
h ' 
I I 30A.M. 
J 9 
A number of beautiful feathered 
decanter, 
12 0 
33 
Jelly glafs, 
25 to 28.5 
I 9 
cryftals appeared in the jelly 
glafs; they began to fhoot from 
the top, which was covered with 
ice, toward the bottom; when 
they reached it, the thermometer 
role immediately from 25 to 28.5. 
Decanter, 
12 15 
3 1 
Ice began to form in the decanter, 
Jelly glafs, 
28.5 
though hardly perceptible at the 
edge of the water. 
Decanter, 
12 20 
3 ° 
jelly glafs, 
28.5 
Cryftals of a laminated appearance 
Decanter, 
12 30 
29 
IQ 
Jelly glafs, 
28.5 
began to fhoot downwards 
obliquely from the ice at the 
furface, which at the edge of 
the water was barely two-tenths 
of an inch thick; no appearance 
• • - _ 
of ice in the middle of the fur- 
face. 
Decanter, 
i oP.M* 
27-5 
l 9 
Cryftals began to fhoot round the 
neck of the decanter clofe to the 
glafs. 
Decanter, 
1 i 5 
28.5 
19 
The infide became covered with 
finely feathered cryftals, which 
made it impoffiblc to obferve the 
height of the thermometer, 
without railing it till the quick- 
filver in the tube appeared 
above the ice. 
Decanter, 
4 0 
28.5 
1 9 
1 
January 
