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terminated by peaked rocks, chequered by 
j. At snow, 
S? ^ori? the sun still remained several degrees above 
W *'"011'°''^ and continued to ascend higher and higher 
jUi, ’ "'hen, having again descended, it passed the 
P^ioti dipping below the horizon. This pheno- 
JPM anj^'''h is as extraordinary to the inhabitants of tJie 
t tyrnperate zones, as snow is to the inhabitants 
3 it,, t 'd zone, could not be viewed without a parti- 
' Two months of continued day-light, during 
tile sun never sets, seem to place the traveller 
, hilts of , existence ; while the effect on the inha- 
. •lit. these regions is singular. During the time the 
Sif''P«Uariy 
‘“*'K above the horizon, they rise at ten in the 
''c at five or six in the evening, and go to bed 
during the winter season, when, from the 
\ December until tire end of Janitmy, the sun 
> '•1 V , . 
twenty-four hours, 
tile other half in sitting over the fire, all busi- 
5. jAe an end, and a constant darkness prevailing. 
*•4 of this phenomenon, as it affects the. northern 
'1H ■ regions of the earth, may be readily ntrder- 
r ,,5 ihii,-^® Sun always illumines half the earth at once, 
V*^lie^ 00 every side ninety degrees from the place 
ISji' Otg yertical. When he is vertical over the equa- 
M ?lont from hour poles, he shines as far as each 
happens in spring and autumn. But, as he 

ill '« po| t'le north in summer, he shines beyondj»,he 
S5|''ttp5.j ’Olid all the countries near that pole turn round 
polg^ ®onshine ; he, at the same time, leaves the- 
Pril'' ton-j^o equal number of degrees, and those parts 
S ^ 111 Til- .. _ JX", i. f-xnmr rt ♦- 
miles from the North Cape lies Maso, 
port of Norwegian Lapland. It is formed 
**^t bay, in which ships may winter with the 
at each 
'*'(! "ouf ‘larkness. The effect is contraiy 
to.,., "'inter, tlie sun then declining southward oi 
the 
