from Christiania to Bergen^ in the Simmer 219 
I had the year before been appointed Lecturer in the Norwe- 
gian University, had no alternative but to steal out on various 
pretexts in a little boat, and leave it to Providence to determine 
whether he should be swallowed up by the waves, or be taken 
by the enemy, or succeed in his enterprise. There were at that 
time several hundred Norwegian sailors in Copenhagen, who 
had just returned from a _six years captivity in England, and 
who eagerly longed to get back to their native land. I joined 
myself with twenty of these, purchased the privateer lugger 
called the Mazarino, sailed with a brisk wind from Copenhagen, 
on the llith July, in the forenoon, with my wife, whose birth-day 
it happened to be, and my youngest brother, and had passed the 
Scaw Point by nine o’clock in the evening of next day. Our 
papers bore that we were going to Fladstrand to buy fish ; but 
the owners’ letter enjoined us, if there should not be a good mar- 
ket here, to go to Kingkioberg on the west coast of Jutland, to 
try our luck there. By this means we could, if necessary, allow 
ourselves to be visited even north and west from tlie Scaw. As 
there was but little wind we wore along the north-west coast of 
Jutland till 5 in the afternoon of the 16th, for the remaining 
and most dangerous part of our voyage could only be underta- 
ken with a favourable wind in the night time. At this time 
there arose a brisk wind from the north-west, upon which, after a 
consultation, we set out on our voyage. 
Art. III . — Observations on the Temperature of the Earth at 
Paramatta^ New South Wales. By His Excellency Sir 
Thomas Brisbane, K. C. B. F. R. S. Lond. & Ed., &c. * 
In the most elevated ground in the neighbourhood of Para- 
matta, a cylindrical hole was bored in the earth, about inches 
in diameter, and passing through clay and rotten sandstone, 
• This paper contains part of a series of valuable Meteorological and Astro- 
nomical observations, which Sir Thomas Brisbane has communicated to Dr 
Brewster, to be laid before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and to be subse- 
quently published in whatever way he may consider as most conducive to the 
interests of science. The Astronomical observations are given in this Number, 
