THE ARCTIC SEAS. 



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sponding points in the outermost circle, segments of 

 other circles, wholly external, come into contact with 

 it. It is not often that this meteor is seen in the 

 perfection described : occasionally the circles are too 



Mock Suns. 

 The scene is the coast of Barrow's Strait. 



faint to be visible; and the mock suns alone are 

 seen in the usual places, and sometimes but one or 

 two of them. Another singular appearance, called 

 the fog-bow, of great beauty and interest, is thus 

 described by Mr. Scoresby : " The intense fogs 

 which prevail in the Polar Seas, at certain seasons, 

 occasionally rest upon the surface of the water, and 

 reach onlv to an inconsiderable height. At such 



