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WHEN I wrote to you last from Copenhagen, I anticipated that my season would be very short; and my anticipations were correct. The season, however, in Greenland has been long and brilliant. In the middle of May floe ice disappeared in Umenak Fiord, which was fully six weeks earlier than usual; and in April, in God-havn men went about in summer attire. When I arrived (on July 6) the land was covered with flowers, the butterflies were beginning to appear, and almost all snow had vanished from the sea-level up to 2,000 ft. Since then, with the exception of a bad week in the Waigat, I have enjoyed the most exquisite weather that it is possible to imagine. In this arctic region it has only frozen on two nights, and during the daytime the thermometer has ranged from 50° to 70°. Until recently we have also had a high barometer; and, upon the whole, very little wind.
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WHYMPER, E. Researches in Greenland * . Nature 7, 8 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007008a0
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