September IS///, 1011. 



KAST. CAPE AIURE. 



8 a.m. Barometer steady and temperature falling slowly. Clear in zenith and to X. and a 

 heavy Nimbus cloud on Cape Ada. re. This is moving from the S.S.K. Calm. Stratus 

 the foot of the hills to the S. 



8 p.m. Barometer steady. Calm and bright. A thick fog has been hanging over the cape 

 all day but cleared a little about 3 p.m. The sun then shone brilliantly for about 1 \ hours. 

 Later in the evening the fog cleared altogether. Temperature falling slowly. (Browning.) 



WEST TO EAST. PENELOPE POINT TO CAPE ADARE. 



5.45 a.m. Temperature 2-0 F. Clear with a little Stratus to the N. and Send overhead. 

 8 a.m. Sky overcast with Cirro-cumulus from the N. 



8 p.m. The sky became overcast early in the day. with a low-level Nimbus log which did 

 not quite reach us but shrouded Cape Adare almost or quite to sea level. Northerly airs 

 to a breeze of force 2 all day and slight spicular snow for a short time. 



This has brought us to the end of our first journey, and as far as the evidence goes it points 

 plainly enough to a similar climate to the W. and the E. of the bay with this one very important 

 exception. 



It seems probable, almost certain in fact, that the southerly winds, which form such a 

 feature in the weather not only of Cape Adare but of the Ross Sea generally, do not for some reason 

 or other reach to the Western coast to the N. of Robertson Bay, but are represented there by 

 calms or light N.W. and W. airs and by overcast weather and high temperatures. I shall be 

 better able to generalise when our second trip to the coast is an established fact and I have 

 additional evidence in support of or in contradiction to this theory, and so I will say no more 

 on the subject now. only writing this in case I am not able to give the result of the second journey's 

 observations 



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