NATURAL HISTORY of NORWAY. 



The riling and letting of the Sun in the horizon of Bergen, in 

 the 6 1 ft degree of latitude, according to Pontanus. 





January. 



1 ' 



Februa 



# 



March. April. 



| Sun rifes | Sun fets | 



Sun rifes 



Sun fets 



| Sun rifes | Sun fets | | Sun rifes | Sun fets 



I 

 II 



20 

 25 

 30 



8 4, 

 8 4 

 8 ^ 

 8 

 7 I 



3 i 

 3 *■ 



3 4 

 4 



4 4 



4 

 10 



14 



19 



7 T 

 7 4 



7 



64 



4 4 



4 4 



5 



54 



2 



6 

 11 



16 

 21 

 26 

 31 



6 4 

 64 

 6 



5 4 

 5 4 

 5 4 

 5 



5 4 



5 4 

 6 



64 



6 4 

 6 4 

 7 



5 

 11 



16 

 21 

 26 



44 

 4 4 



4 4 

 4 

 3 4 



7 4 



7 4 

 74 



8 , 



8 T 



May 





June. 



July. Augufh 





Sun rifes 



Sun fets | 



Sun rifes 



Sun fets | | Sun rifes f Sun fets | | Sun rifes [ Sun fets 



1 



7 



11 



11 



28 



3 4 

 3 4 

 3 



2 4 

 2 -I 



8 T 



8 4 

 9 



9 4 



9 4 



2 

 7 



18 

 23 



2 4 

 2 4- 



2 i 



2 4- 

 2 4- 



9 4 

 9 4 

 9 4 

 9 4 

 9 4 



4 



9 



14 



l 9 



24 



2 9 



2 4- 



3 



3 4 

 3 4 

 3 4 



4 



9 4 



Ii 



8 4 

 8 4 

 8 



4 

 6 



14 



}9 



25 

 3 1 



4 4 



4 4 



44 

 5 



5 4 

 5 4 



7 4 

 7 4 

 7 4 

 7 



64 

 6 ~ 



September. 



O&ober. 



November. December. 





Sun rifes | Sun fets 



| Sun rifes 



Sun fets 





Sun rifes j Sun fets | j Sun rifes | Sun fets 



-A- 

 24 



5 4 

 6 



64 

 6i 



fit* 



6 



54 ' 

 5 4 



4 



9 



14 

 20 

 25 

 3 1 . 



6{ 

 7 

 7 4 



7 4 

 8 



5 I 

 5 



4 4 

 4 1 

 4 1 

 4 



5 

 11 



r 7 



28 



8 1 

 8 I 



8 4. 



9 



3 4 

 3 1 

 3 I 

 3 



6 

 12 



'\7 



22 



9 1 

 9 1 

 9 I 

 9 



2 4 



2 4 

 2 4. 

 3 



A particular herein obfervable, is, that as in the beginning of 

 the year the day-light increafes with remarkable celerity, fo it 

 decreafes at the approach of winter in a like proportion. In the 

 middle of February, I have been able to read without difficulty 

 at fix in the morning, which at the fame hour in 'October' was not 

 poftible ; the caufe of this, being manifestly the inclination of the 

 earth towards the poles, needs no further explanation. 



In the fummer nights the horizon, when unclouded, is fo clear cieamefi of 

 and luminous, that at midnight one may read, write, and do every night™" 

 kind of work as in the day ; this I have often experienced, even 

 when age had brought me to the ufe of fpectacles. Chriftian V. 

 during his flay at Drontheim, in June, 1685, "fed to fup at 

 midnight, without the ufe of lights. In the diftrict of Tromfen, 

 which is properly the extremity of Norway, towards the inlands of 

 Finmark, the fun is continually in view in the midft of fummer, 

 and is obferved to circulate day and night round the north pole, 

 contracting its orbit, and then gradually enlarging it, till at length 



it 



