Volume 2

Chemical essays / by R. Watson.

  • Watson, Richard, 1737-1816.
Date:
1793-1796
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Credit: Chemical essays / by R. Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frefh water, from the ice, which waS found very pure and - foft *.** Notwithftanding thefe teftimonies of our moft experienced navigators^ concerning the frefh water which they procured from the thawing of ■the ice they found floating in the fea‘; yet it might ftill remain a mat- ;ter of doubt, whether the ice, from which the water was obtained, had been formed in the fea, and, confe- ^quentiy, whether fea water itfelf would when frozen yield frefli water. Por it might, with fome appearance of probability, be faid, that the ice had either been formed at the mouths of large frefh-water rivers, and thence by tides or torrents drifted into the fea ; or that it had been broken by its '*■ Phipps’sVoy.tbwardsthtN#Pok in ^773* p. 6o.