Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River : and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years, 1833, 1834, and 1835 . ntle motion it wentfrom 1° 0 E., to 0° 20 W., and settled at 0° 0. Therewere now many more clouds of the same pale whitefilmy form ; the whole of them coming from the samemass at , while the wind, it may be remarked,was E. b. S. Not being satisfied respecting the chronometers, Ileft them, together with my braces (which had a smallpolished buckle on each), in my tent, and at lh p. the needle tolerably steady at 0° 10 E.; butw
Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River : and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years, 1833, 1834, and 1835 . ntle motion it wentfrom 1° 0 E., to 0° 20 W., and settled at 0° 0. Therewere now many more clouds of the same pale whitefilmy form ; the whole of them coming from the samemass at , while the wind, it may be remarked,was E. b. S. Not being satisfied respecting the chronometers, Ileft them, together with my braces (which had a smallpolished buckle on each), in my tent, and at lh p. the needle tolerably steady at 0° 10 E.; butwhile I was looking, it moved to 0° 30 E., to 0° 10 E.,to 0° 0, and I left it at 0° 30 E. The weather was fine, the sun less bright than in theearlier part of the day, and the white clouds had becomeof a more yellowish tint, and diffused in three archesnot unlike a common form of exhausted aurora, or thatappearance it assumes sometimes after very rapid 2h , having the chronometers on as usual, Ifound the needle steady at 0° 18 E. The sun was lessclear, and the thermometer descending. Clouds white,generally diffused. APPENDIX. 599. At Sh it altered from 0° 5 E. to 0° 10 E., andwas tremulous. At 4h it was steady at 0° 10 E. Thermometer in theair 0°, and in the observatory +l5i° I weather fine withlight clouds, much the same as those already 6h a beam rose from the , and shot uptowards the zenith, when the needle moved from 0° 2W. to 0° 30 W. December 6th. — The weather had been overcast allday, with snow, and a strong breeze from S. W. Ther-mometer from + 13£° to +9°, when at 7h it becamecalm, and the thermometer immediately fell to —1°. At midnight there was a light air from E., a clearsky, and the aurora was generally diffused. Thethermometer had fallen to —11°, and on examinationthe needle was vibrating from 0° 25 W. A mass ofaurora appeared at E., and it moved to 0° 40 E., 0° 20E., 0° 42 E., and became st
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