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BARENTS’ WINTERING. 
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BARENTS’ HOUSE, INSIDE. 
From I)e Fry. 
much perplexity, because in latitude 76° North, the upper edge 
of the sun ought to have ceased to be visible when the sun’s 
south declination in autumn became greater than 13 and 
to have again become visible when the declination again became 
less than that figure ; that is so say, the sun ought to have 
^ On the assumption of a liorizontal refraction of about 45'. 
formed the subject of innumerable writings and reproductions 
both in prose and verse in almost all civilised languages. Only 
a few facts from the journal of the wintering need therefore 
be given here. 
On the jth November the sun disappeared, and was again 
visible on the These dates have caused scientific men 
