SUMMER ASCENTS. 



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A new balloon and iiistmment were prepared and a longer fuse attached. TL,e second 

 balloon ascended at 12-30 ; but unfortunately the fuse became wrapped romid the string 

 attaching the instrument to the balloon and burnt it through ^\athin fifteen minutes of the 

 start. The mstrument was picked up j kilometre to the N.W., the height reached proved 

 to have been only about 3,000 metres. 



Later in the day (at 4-30 p.m.) another attempt was made to get a high ascent and 

 this time all went well, but the height reached was only a little over 4J kilometres, thus 

 only surpassing the fii'st by a little over half a kilometre. The mstrument was found on the 

 slopes of Erebus about | kilometre to the north-east of the station. Throughout the day 

 the sky was cloudless. 



Table 141. 

 Record VII a, b and c. 



