APPENDIX IV. 



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The most pronounced characteristic of the temperatures for this 

 year is the unusually high figure for July, the temperature from the 

 middle of June to the end of the former month only once falling as 

 low as 0'1 Cent. Like all the years except the preceding one, the 

 observations are incomplete, the month of August being omitted. In 

 order to get a mean for the year an average must be estimated for this 

 month, and if it be put at 2'0 Cent., which seems to be a suitable 

 figure, a mean temperature for the year of 17'4Cent is attained. 

 The maximum of the year, 13'3 Cent., which occurred on July 9, 

 was the highest temperature recorded at any time. The minimum for 

 the year, 44'9 Cent., was as late as on March 19. 



WINDS. 



Not having the journals for the whole year at my disposal, and, 

 moreover, not being in possession of sufficient time to work out 

 summaries of them, I must confine myself to a few particulars with 

 regard to the wind and precipitation. We had not nearly so much nor 

 such violent wind during the last year as in 1900-1901. This may 

 have been partly because we had more sheltered winter quarters, for 

 farther up the fjord it blew much and hard this winter also. Often 

 when it was calm or only slightly windy with us we saw the snow on the 

 west side of the fjord being whirled violently up and carried away by the 

 north wind, which, however, could not touch us, who were lying under 

 the lee of the high ' Gula Berget ' (Yellow Mountain). Nevertheless 

 southerly winds could and did reach us with their fullest force. On 



