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trial of the pendulums in Portland Place, to ascer- 

 tain that they had undergone no alteration in the 

 course and by the events of the preceding voyage. 



The process of these experiments, the preparation 

 of an apparatus for the clock and pendulum, and 

 providing cover and protection for the instruments, 

 which experience in the Northern expedition, and 

 particularly at Melville Island, had taught Captain 

 Sabine to be necessary, were simultaneously com- 

 pleted with the equipment of the Griper. That 

 vessel left the Nore on the 11th of May, and arrived 

 at Hammerfest, the place designated by him as his 

 first station, on the 4th of June. A spot was se- 

 lected for the observations at Fugleness, where Mr. 

 Crowe, a gentleman at the head of a large com- 

 mercial establishment, resides, and who gave every 

 possible assistance and attention to the party. Here 

 Captain Sabine repeated the same routine of obser- 

 vations — the transits of the sun and stars — the de- 

 termination of the rate of chronometers by zenith 

 distances — the coincidences observed with two pen- 

 dulums. These were all completed by the 23rd of 

 June — the instruments embarked, and the Griper 

 arrived at Fair Haven, on the coast of Spitzbergen, 

 on the 1st of July. 



The Griper anchored at one of the Norweys 

 which forms, with the coast of Spitzbergen, the har- 

 bour of Fair Haven. Here the experiments pro- 

 ceeded without interruption, being the same series 

 as that practised at Hammerfest, and were con- 



