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CHAPTER VI. 
FIRST APPEARANCE OF SCURVY — THE AURORA BOREALIS AND OTHER 
METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA — VISITS OF THE WOLVES — RE-APPEAR- 
ANCE OF THE SUN — EXTREME LOW TEMPERATURE — DESTRUCTION OF 
THE HOUSE ON SHORE BY FIRE — SEVERE FROST-BITES OCCASIONED BY 
THIS ACCIDENT. 
The mild weather with which the new year commenced was not of long 1820< 
January. 
duration ; for, as the wind gradually moderated, the thermometer slowly fell 
once more to the average temperature of the atmosphere at this season. The Sat ' 1 ’ 
quantity of snow which had fallen at this time was so small, that its general 
depth on shore did not exceed one or two inches, except where it had 
drifted into the ravines and hollows. At ten A.M., on the 1st, a halo, whose 
radius was 22° 30', with three paraselenae, which were very luminous, but not 
tinged with the prismatic colours, was seen about the moon, similar to that 
described on the 1st of December; and on the following day the same Sun. 2. 
phenomenon occurred, with the addition of a vertical stripe of white light 
proceeding from the upper and lower limbs of the moon, and forming, with a 
part of the horizontal circle seen before, the appearance of a cross, as shewn 
in the accompanying diagram. There was also at times an arc of another 
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