INDEX. 



571 



i. 113— Rocks and banks, i. 114 — 



Anchorages, ib Examination and 



exploration of, t. 118 — At Mitre 

 Cape, difficulties in climbing the 

 mountains, i. 120 — Air mild at the 

 height of 3000 feet, i. 123 — Snow- 

 dissolves at the top of the moun- 

 tains, i. 1 24<— Be^'utiful prospect from 

 the mountain b^Tfimit, i. 128 — 

 Dangers of descending, i. 129 — 

 Bones, huts, &c. i. 130 — Animals 



met with, i. 131 — Drift wood, ib 



Sea-weed, i. 132 — Dead whale dis- 

 covered, ib. — Exploration in King's 

 Bay, i. 134 — Climate, i. 135— Pro- 

 gress of the seasons, i. ^137 — Ac- 

 count of persons wintering in, i, 139 

 — Russian hunters, i. 140 — Currents 

 and tides, L 147 — Plants of, i. (75) 

 — Minerals, i. (76) — Attempt by the 

 Dutch to colonize it, ii. 47 — Smce- 

 renberg founded in, ii. 52 — Build- 

 ings in, erected by the whale-fishers, 

 ii. 177 — Whale-fisher}- of, discovered 

 by the English, ii. 19. See Whale- 

 fishery. 



Squalus borealis, description of, 1. 538 



Star-fish, notice of, i. 550 



Sterna hirundo, remarks on, i. 533 



Stockholm, abstract of fifty years obser- 

 vations on the temperature of, i. (52) 



Stockholm, Whale-fishing Company of, 

 ii. 80 



Storms, phenomena of sudden, i. 398 

 — Examples, i. 399 — Sometimes 

 heard before they appeared, i. 402 

 — Intermitting storms, instances of, 

 ib — Local, examples of, i. 406 — 

 Tremendous in autumn, i. 412 — 

 Suppressed by CiflTs at Disco, i. 414 

 — Catastrophe ' from, in the seal- 

 fishery, i. 514 — Storms repelled by 

 ice, i. 297 — Thirty-three ships lost 

 during one, near Spitzbergen, ii. 73 

 — Terrors of, among ice, ii. 439 



Success in the whale-fishery, on what 

 it depends, ii. 333 



Swallow, sea, remarks on, i. 533 



Sweden, whale-fishery from, encou- 

 raged, ii. 171 



Synoicum turgens, notice of, i. 551 



Table of specific gravity and temjiera- 

 ure of the Greenland sea, i. 182 



Table of changes of specific gravity for 

 every 5° of temperature, i. 183 



of temperature and sjiecific gra- 

 vity of sea-water below the surface, 

 i. i87 



of effects produced on wood by 



the impregnation of water, i. 195, 

 200 



of remarkable changes of tempe- 

 rature, i. 327 



of monthly range and monthly 



extremes of temperature, i. 366 



of winds, average, i. 411 



of the state of the weather when 



the aurora borealis was seen, i. 417 



of the dissolving power of air, i. 



422 



of the state of the atmosphere, 



when diflTerent crystals of snow were 

 observed, i. 433 



of the quantity of oil afforded by 



whales of diflTerent sizes, i. 462 



. of the comparative dimensions of 



six different whales, i. 464 



of meteorological observations, 



twelve years, i. (2) 



of meteorological results, twelve 



years observations, i. (48) 



for determining the mean tem- 

 perature of latitude 78° and North 

 Pole, i. (49) 



for determining do. month of 



April, i. (50) 



for determining do. month of 



July, ib. 



■ of abstract of observations on 



temperature made at London, i. (51) 

 of do. at Stockholm, i. (52) 



of mean monthly temperature, 



latitude 78°, i. (54) 



of latitudes and longitudes in 



Spitzbergen and Jan Mayen, i. (73) 



of wind and weather in Jan 



Mayen, i. (78) 



of the extent of the British whale- 

 fisheries, ii. 119 



of the comparative success of ves- 

 sels from different British ports, ii. 

 131 



of the expences and profits of the 



Dutch whale-fishery during 107 

 years, ii. 156 



of duties on the produce of the 



whale-fisheries, ii. 501 



