. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 : with a description of the little tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the " Saviksue" or great Cape-York meteorites. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. i! (i . ( ! \. i/S Northward over the "Great Ice" hy Robinson's anemometer (Weather Bl- 'jau pat- tern ). Temperatures in all case
. Northward over the "great ice" [microform] : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 : with a description of the little tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the " Saviksue" or great Cape-York meteorites. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. i! (i . ( ! \. i/S Northward over the "Great Ice" hy Robinson's anemometer (Weather Bl- 'jau pat- tern ). Temperatures in all cases are Fahrenheit. ^liioiisl, /SlJJ. Temperature and Pressure {pressure for eleven days). Mean. Maximum. Minimum. 4 28° 59-o^ <"i tl"-" 131^1 ° on the 29th 29-713 ; on the 27tli ; on the 25th Ice formed on harbour diirinii^ several nights previ- ous to the departure of the Fa/con ( 20th), but the temperature of the air in the observatory (40 feet above sea-level) did not sink to the freezinL,^-point till the 23d at iiine I'.m. The weather was, in jjfeneral, cloudy, with lii^ht showers on six different niL,dits, from the south, pleas- ant and exhilarating^, with lij^ht winds alternating from the north and south. September^ iSgj. Temperature and Pressure: Mean. 30-5° ^ ; Temp. Soil Minimum. (2 ft. â " U f t, Maximum. ° on the 4th *^ on the 30th ; on the i8th ; on the r5th ,° on the 2d 316° on the 9th ,° on the 5th ° on the 9th Nearly perfect weather for the first two weeks. Cloudy, with lii^ht snows from the south-east or south- west durinor the second half of the month. Much wind. From the i8th to the 20th, or durini^'- fifty-four con- secutive hours, the wind velocity equalled miles, attaining^, on the 19th for eleven consecutive hours, a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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