. 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 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Ari'FNDIX. •W !um)ra ccnsin*^, ami the coruscations becoming faint, it settled at (f 'M)' E. October 28th. — At 8'' a. m. the needle was at 1" 20' E. At 9" I found it at 2" 20' E.: saw it move to 2^ 50' E., and being something surprised, I went out to endeavour to trace some cause for such a deviation. There was not, however, the least vestige of a cloud, the sky
. 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 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. Ari'FNDIX. •W !um)ra ccnsin*^, ami the coruscations becoming faint, it settled at (f 'M)' E. October 28th. — At 8'' a. m. the needle was at 1" 20' E. At 9" I found it at 2" 20' E.: saw it move to 2^ 50' E., and being something surprised, I went out to endeavour to trace some cause for such a deviation. There was not, however, the least vestige of a cloud, the sky being of an indigo colour at the zenith, and becoming fainter in tone till it mingled in a pale yellow near the hori/on. The sun was very bright, about 10° high, and bore E. ^ S. (m.) * The thermometer on the north side of the observatory was — 4^", that on the south, cx|>osed to the sun's rays, was +4-^" : the weather calm. At 10" A. M. the needle was agitated at l'' 30' E.; at 11'' I found it also at 1° 30' E., but in motion, which took it to 2° 0' E., then to 0° 20' E., to 0'' '20 W'., where it remained ten seconds, and repassed to O' 40' E., to 0" 0, 0" 10 E., to 0° 30' E., 0° 20' E., to 1" 0' R, 1° to' E., and 0° 25' E.: when, seeming to be stationary, I went out, and placing myself in the shade of a fir tree of thirty feet high, looked directly to the zenith and to the westward (the sun being too bright to look to the eastward), when there appeared a very faint and filmy arch of pale white, that issued from a mass of white cloud precisely similar in shape to the horse-shoe mass of aurora of last night in the same place ; and on watch-. ^j^f^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878. London : J. Murray
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