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PLATE LXXXIX. CLOUD EFFECTS IN THE ANTARCTIC 



REGION. 



FIG. 1. From a photograph by Mr R. FORD ; showing the ship after a heavy 

 blizzard, when the drifts around her were so excessive that even the guide- 

 posts were nearly buried. 



FIG. 2. From a photograph by Mr R. FORD ; showing typical fracto- stratus clouds. 







It would be absurd in half a page to try to give an account of the beauty of 

 the cloud effects which are to be seen in the Antarctic regions. But the shortest 

 word about the magnificence of the colour may serve to correct a very widespread 

 and mistaken notion as to the monotonous whiteness, greyness, and general want 

 of colour in the far South. It is, as a matter of fact, a most grand and beauti- 

 ful part of our globe, where for weeks on end in spring and in autumn, gold 

 and fiery orange, purple and pale blue and green, crimson and rosy tints, all seem to 

 vie with one another in their efforts to ring new changes of colour on an altogether 

 glorious canvas of light and shade. 



