TEMPERATURES. 
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froze my cheeks twice. We avoid masks with great 
care, reserving them for the severer weather: the jaw 
when protected recovers very soon the sensibility which 
exposure has subdued. 
“ Our party is now out in its ninth day. It has had 
some trying weather: 
On the 19th 
20th. 
21st, 
22d.. 
23d.. 
24th, 
25th. 
26th. 
27th 
—42°.3 
—35°.4 
—19°.37 
— 7°.47 
— 9°.0' 7 
—18°.32 
—34°.80 
—42°.8 
—34°.38 
of mean daily temperature; making an average of 
27°.13 below zero. 
“March 29, Wednesday.—I have been out with my 
dog-sledge, inspecting the ice to-day from the north¬ 
western headland. There seems a marked difference 
between this sound and other estuaries, in the number 
of ice-bergs. Unlike Prince Regent’s, or Wellington, 
or Lancaster Sounds, the shores here are lined with 
glaciers, and the water is everywhere choked and 
harassed by their discharges. This was never so appa¬ 
rent to me as this afternoon. The low sun lit up line 
after line of lofty bergs, and the excessive refraction 
elevated them so much, that I thought I could see a 
chain of continuous ice running on toward the north 
until it was lost in illimitable distance. 
