In essence, this ingenious American has noted that between the South Pole and the 60th parallel, the sea is covered with floating ice of dimensions much greater than any found in the north Atlantic.
El ingenioso americano ha observado, en efecto, que entre el Polo Sur y el paralelo 6º el mar está cubierto de hielos flotantes de enormes dimensiones que no se encuentran nunca en el Atlántico Norte.