THE ARCTIC SEAS. 131 
those clear skies with peculiar brilliance, and is 
often visible twelve or fourteen days without set- 
ting. There is, moreover, a large proportion of 
the time, in which the Aurora Borealis illumines 
Avrora Borgatis. 
The scene is in the vicinity of thc Three Crowns on the Coast of 
Spitzbergen. See p. 106. 
the heavens, and sometimes with an intensity little 
inferior to moonlight. This interesting meteor is 
occasionally seen in England, but very rarely with 
that brilliance with which it shines in the Frigid 
Zone, and in the northern parts of America. In 
Newfoundland and Canada I have seen many spe- 
cimens of the Aurora, and some splendidly coloured 
with blue, green, and red hues; sometimes the 
