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To Brasil
Novr.
10 fathoms
After dinner the wind came more to the Eastward & freshend & little peices of Seaweed now came floating by the ship which we took & it provd to be Sargaso fucus natans which is generaly supposd to increase upon the surface of the sea in the same manner as duck weed Lemna does on fresh water without having any root this however plainly shewd that it had been rooted in the Coral rock on the bottom as two specimens particularly had large lumps of the coral still adhering to their bottoms among the weed we got were some few animals but scarcely worth mentioning one Balistes but quite a fry so young that it was impossible
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