LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
The following is the scale of the temperature of the exterior 
Atmosphere for the month of November . 
Highest 
Lowest 
i 
Highest 
Lowest J 
] 
Highest 
Lowest 
Nov. 
Below 
Above 
Below 
Above 
Below 
Above 
1 
14 
12 
10 
23 
18 
; 2 
14 
13 
8 
24 
7 
3 
14 
14 
7 
25 
16 
4 
5 
15 
1 
26 
27 
5 
Zero. 
16 
4 
27 
6 
6 
15 
17 
! 
Zero. 
28 
27 
7 
15 
18 
Zero. 
29 
S6 
8 
221 
19 
3 
7 
30 
1 
9 
23 
20 
5 
10 
26 
21 
9 
11 
34 
22 
i 
18 
On the 1st and 2nd of December, the erection of the observa¬ 
tory was proceeded with, and some of the crew amused therm* 
selves with cutting figures out of the ice, and placing them in 
different positions, and certainly no sculptor made such grotesque 
objects from such rude materials. The appearance of the 
objects however afforded a fund of amusement to the crew, as 
each found in them a resemblance to something or to some person 
which he had known, and a nick name was given to it accordingly. 
An attempt was made on the 3rd, to obtain some more of the 
things which had been overflowed by the eruption of the water, 
and some hope was entertained that the very valuable boilers, 
now divided into four pieces, might be extracted from the ice. If 
instead of four useless lumps of copper, the crew had been called 
upon to save a puncheon of rum or gin from the ice, no doubt 
exists hut the utmost alacrity would have been used, but after 
