220 Astronomical and Mttgnetical Observations. [March, 



carpet, fastened on both sides to mighty rocks. When the glacier 

 has reached the valley, it still continues to push on, like the glaciers 

 of the Rhone, and shoves a high Moraine before it; and from the 

 sides of the valley new glaciers coine down, some to the bottom, 

 some only one-half or one-third of the way. Tliere is at present an 

 inhabited house, Bersetgaard, quite in the neighbourhood of this 

 glacier; and unless the great Moraine prevented it (for it is the 

 size of a mountain), the ice would, without doubt, reach the corn- 

 fields. The foot of this remarkable glacier is 1592 English feet 

 high ; and the church of Justedal, in the middle of the valley, is 

 only 680 feet above the level of the sea.* 



{To be continued.) 



Article XI. 



Astronomical arid Magnetical Ohervaiions at Jrlackney Wick. 



By Col. Beaufoy. 



Longitude West in Time 6"jVo' 



;illj 12' 

 26 

 13 



Latitude 51" 32' 40-3" North 



Feb. 1, Immersion of v Gemini }.. 



„ . U2 13 



Emersion <.c, i- 



Feb. 4, Immersion of Jupiter's 

 Ist Satellite 



Feb. 16, iDimersion of Jupiter's <I1 

 2d Satellite ?11 



14-5' App. Time 



11-7 Mean. Time 



184 App. Time ) ., .„ 



15-2 Mean Time J "* • 



26-9 Mean Time at H.W . 



33'S Ditto at Greenwich 



3S-S Mean Time at H. W. 



40-4 Ditto at Grecnwicb 



Observation of tlie 16t!i uncertain to Stc seconds. 



Magnetical Observations. 

 1814. 



• These remarkable glaciers, on account of their distance probably, are so 

 little kuowu in Denmark, and even in Norway, that a celebrated naturali»it and 

 traveller through a great part of Norway (Professor llornemanii) considered me 

 as guilty of an error when I spoke of glaciers in Norway, proceeding, iu his 

 opinion, from my ignorance of the language {Scandin. IJller. Selscabs scrifts, &c.) 

 Yet these remarkable spots may be visited from Christiania, or Bergen, without 

 inueh difficulty ; and they are as well entitled to a jouruey from Copeuhageu as 

 the valley of Cbamouny. 



