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and subsequently contribute to its destruction. The cause 

 to which I allude is the operation of the wind, which, in 

 all its changes, reigns the tyrant of the arctic world. To 

 explain this it will be necessary to examine the matter in 

 a very few points only. 



The reader has seen in the course of my Journal, from 

 the time of entering Uavis's Strait and meeting with the 

 ice, a faithful record of every wind that blew, and its 

 effects on the atmosphere, as indicated by the thermometer. 

 That part of the Journal is divested of every comment, in 

 order that those effects should meet the eye, and satisfy the 

 mind at once. The plan has been continued up to Disko 

 in the seventieth degree, and resumed with the progress of 

 the Journal to the Linnaean Isles, and down again to the 

 seventy-fourth degree, when the indications of approaching 

 winter commenced. 



I shall now copy an extract from a Journal kept by 

 Crantz, during a winter in Greenland. I shall abridge it so 

 as not to tire the reader with details. 



September. — Wind N.E. warm; wind S. very warm; 

 wind S. storm. 



October. — Wind N.E. snow ; wind N.E. storm and cold; 

 wind S. storm and snow. 



November. — Wind N.E. excessively cold; wind S.E. 

 storm and snow dust ; wind S. storm. 



December. — Lightnino- ; afterwards S.E. winds. 

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