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<c If they lived on Bear-IJIand, they 
" muft have (con the fun for the fir ft 
xc time on the twenty-eighth of January; 
" as he there performs his circuit above 
" the horizon from the twentieth ot 
" April to the thirty-firft of July, and 
" difappears on the twenty -third of 
£: Ocloher. 
c - Now, from the obfervations of thefe 
<£ failors, it would appear more probable 
tc that they were on the laft mentioned 
" iiland ; but the darknefs of the horizon, 
<e a circumftance very ufual in thefe nor- 
" thern countries, may have occailoned 
" their mifhke in obferving the fun ten 
*' days later than they would have done 
" with fair weather and a clear fky ; and 
" from the fame caufe they may have 
" loft light of him ten days before the 
" period of his difappearance. 
Ci If we date the beginning of this Iumi- 
" nary's courfe round the horizon on the 
" fecond of May, its end mull have been 
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