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be to ten degrees below zero. One hand holds a chro¬ 
nometer, and is left bare to warm it: the other luxu¬ 
riates in a fox-skin mitten. The right hand and the 
left take it‘watch and watch about.’ As one burns 
with cold, the chi’onometer shifts to the other, and the 
mitten takes its place. 
“ Perched on a pedestal of frozen gravel is a magneto¬ 
meter; stretching out from it, a telescope: and, bending 
down to this, an abject human eye. Every six minutes, 
said eye takes cognizance of a finely-divided arc, and 
notes the result in a cold memorandum-book. This 
process continues for twenty-four hours, two sets of eyes 
