INDEX. 



567 



Impress, seamen of whale-ships pro- 

 tected from, ii. 85 



Instruments used in the wliale-fishery, 

 list of, ii. 509 — Harpoon, ii. 2231- 

 Lance, ii. 227. 



Intestina, notice of, i. 543 



Ireland, whale-fishery from, ii. 132 



Iron, polarity of, ii. 540 — Its polarity 

 dependant on position^, ib. 



Jameson Bay, Jan Mayc'h, named, i. 

 166 



Jan Mayen Island, account of, i. 15t 

 — Named Mauritius' Island and 

 Trinity Island, ib Singuhir Moun- 

 tain on, i. 158 — Icebergs, i. 159 — 

 Examination of a part of the coast, 

 i. ICO — Found to be volcanic, i. 161 

 Crater, i. 162 — Some seamen at- 

 tempting to winter in this island, 

 perished, i. 167 — State of the wea- 

 ther in, during winter, i. (78) — An 

 important whale-fishing station, ii. 

 33 — Two voyages made thither in 

 one season, ii. 54 



Kittywake, account of, i. 534 



Labrador, whale-fishery on the coa.st 



of, ii. 386. 

 Lamps, oil, caution in trimming, ii. 



433 

 Lance, description of, ii. 227 

 Larus crepidatus, habits of, i. 534 

 eburneus, account of. 535 



glaucus, remarks on, i. 534 



parasiticus, habits of, i. ib. 



rissa, account of, i. ib. 



Latitude, a desideratum in foggy wea- 

 ther, i. 442 — Method of olitaining, 

 i. 443 — Latitudes and longitudes in 

 Spitzbergen, i. (73) — In Jan Mayen, 

 i- (74) 



Laws of the whale-fishery, ii. 313 — 

 Among the Dutch, ii. 313 — Among 

 all nations, ii. 319 — With regard to 

 wrecks, ii. 328 — Circumstance il- 

 lustrative of the nature of, ii. 331 



Lead-ore, occurs in Chcrie Island, i. 

 153 



Lernsa branchialis, notice of, i. 543 



Leslie, Professor, his researches on 

 the cause of rain, i. 421— Illustra- 

 tions founded on these, i. 422 



Light, intensity of, among ice, i. 379 

 — Contrivance of the Indians for de- 

 fending the eyes in such light, i. ib. 



Lightning, seldom seen in the Arctic 

 Zone, i. 415 



Lines, whale, quantity carried in a 

 boat, ii. 232 — Danger of their get- 

 ting entangled, ii. 246, 357 — Im- 

 mense quantity withdrawn by a 

 whale, ii. 281 



London, mean temperature of, i. (51) 

 Whale-fishery from, ii. 124 



l^ondon Coast, Davis' Strait, discover- 

 ed by Davis, i. 78 



Longitude, mistakes in, by vessels re- 

 turning from Spitzbergen or Arch- 

 angel, ii. 375 — Occasioned by the 

 attraction of iron on the compasses, 

 ii. 376 — Quantity of error in, estima- 

 ted, ii. 377 



Loom, account of, i. 533 



Loommg, phenomenon of, i. 384 



Loose fish, free prize of any one, ii. 

 322 



Low Island, description of, i. 150 



Lumley's Inlet, named, i. 78 



Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, his voyage 

 to the Frozen Ocean, i. 37 — Evi. 

 dence of his having been at the Fro- 

 zen Sea, or in a river falling into it, 

 ib. 



Magnetic force, table of, ii. 545 



Magnetism of iron, ii. 540. See Com- 

 pass 



Making off, process of, described, ii. 

 304 



Mallemuk, account of, i. 528 



Marine diver, description of, i. 186 



MarkolT's, Alexei, journey of 800 

 miles over ice, i. 59 



Mayer, formula by, for calculating 

 mean temjierature, i. 353 



Medusa, description of various kinds, 

 i. 544, 548 



, immense number of, in the 

 Greenland seas, i. 179 — Economy 

 of, i. 546 — Physiology of their pre- 

 servation, ib. 



Meteors, — Winds, i. 395 — Lightning, 



i. 415 — Aurora borcalis, i. 416 



Clouds, i. 419— Kain, i. 420— Hail, 

 i. 424 — Snow, i. 425 — Frost-rime, 



