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58 it leaves a white Frot upon your Hair and Clothes.

I mut not forget here to mention the wonderful Harmony and Correpondence, which is oberved in Greenland between Fountains and the main Sea, viz. that at in New and Full Moon, when the tronget Ebbing is at Sea, the hidden Fountains or Springs of freh Water break out on Shore and dicover themelves, often in Places, where you never would expect to meet with any uch; epecially in Winter, when the Ground is covered with Ice and Snow; yet at other Times there is no Water Springs in thoe Places. The Caue of this wonderful Harmony I leave to the learned Enquiry of Natural Philoophers; how Springs and Fountains follow the Motion of the main Sea, as the Sea does that of the Moon. Yet this I mut oberve to you, that ome great Men have been greatly mitaken, in that they have taken for granted and aerted, that in Norway and Greenland the Tide was hardly