COLD AND STORMS. 4,0 3 



Over the ice lay a slight fog, and the sky clouded quicklj^ 

 from the south. More distiuctly than ever did the well- 

 known roaring reach us, and rising along the stretch of 

 the sea were thick columns and clouds of frosty vapour, 

 showing that the icy covering was already broken. This 

 was a particularly interesting sight. Dr. Copeland, who 

 was on a high mountain on the island at this time, saw 

 the ice by Klein-Pendulum break up and drift away. 

 Caught on the heights by the north wind, he was obliged 

 to make the best of his way back on account of the in- 

 tense cold, whilst below in the harbour a calm reigned for 

 a long time, or a light breeze blew from the south or south- 

 west. About noo7i a few gusts came through from the 

 north, where it had been raging since early morning — at 

 first in a clear sky, then in a thick atmosphere and snow- 

 drift. This storm, too, which blew violently by the hour 

 together, lasted a long time, quite fifty hours, until sud- 

 denly, as if by a higher command, it fell, and there was a 

 perfect calm. The raging of the ice, however, continued', 

 and on the morning of the 9tli was another six hours' 

 storm. Then followed days in which wind and storm 

 alternated, though work in the open air was not dis- 

 turbed by it. The astronomers had enough to do to 

 bring their geodetical work to a satisfactory conclusion 

 during this year. The ground on which the basis was to 

 be measured was reconnoitred, the direction and extreme 

 point settled upon, and in difi'erent places signals were 

 raised, so that, later on, the spots from which to mea- 

 sure the trianoie would be fixed at once. Dr. Pansch 

 undertook the meteorological observations for those 

 absent. 



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