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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
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Captain Adam Seaborn
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4th.
That
at
the
pole,
the
rays
of
the
sun
coming
to
it
in
a
very
oblique
direction,
must
necessarily
pass
through
our
atmosphere
a
greater
distance
than
on
any
other
part
of
this
globe,
and
consequently
must
there
be
refracted
in
a
greater
degree
than
elsewhere.
Hence
I
inferred,
that
in
consequence
of
this
refraction,
and
of
its
increase
in
proportion
to
the
obliquity
of
the
direction
of
the
rays,
the
sun
when
in
the
plane
of
the
equator,
must
appear
to
an
observer
at
the
poles
to
be
some
degrees
above
the
horizon,
and
that
the
sun
must
recede
to
the
north
of
the
equator
at
least
five
or
six
degrees
of
declination,
before
it
would
become
invisible
at
the
south
pole:
therefore,
as
it
takes
fifteen
days
to
increase
the
sun's
declination
five
degrees,
it
must
be
visible
at
the
poles
one
month
longer,
on
account
of
the
refraction,
than
it
would
be
without
it.
This
conclusion
is
corroborated
by
the
testimony
of
Barentz,
a
Dutchman,
who
wintered
in
Nova
Zembla.
He
found
the
sun
to
rise,
in
latitude
76°,
fifteen
days
sooner
than
was
expected
by
astronomical
calculations.
This
will
give
the
polar
region
seven
months
constant
sunshine;
think
of
that,
my
shipmates,
said
I,
seven
months
constant
day,
with
a
continual
stream
of
light
and
heat
pouring
upon
the
same
spot,
without
any
interval
of
night
to
cool
the
earth
and
air.
I
think
if
we
can
but
find
our
way
to
the
polar
region,
we
shall
be
in
much
more
danger
of
being
roasted
alive,
than
of
being
frozen
to
death.
But,
my
lads,
what
Yankee
sailor
would
hesitate
to
expose
himself
to
be
roasted
or
frozen
alive
to
accomplish
that
which
the
British
tars
have
endeavoured
in
vain
to
do?
Three
hearty
cheers
put
an
end
to
the
debate.
We
bore
up
for
Sandwich
land,
not
that
I
had
any
belief
in
the
existence
of
any
such
land,
for
I
had
always
been
of
opinion,
that
the
English
placed
this
supposed
land
on
their
charts
as
an
English
discovery,
stretching
it
along
from
the
polar
seas
to
latitude
57°
south,
that
they
might,
whenever
any
land
should
be
discovered
in
that
unexplored
quarter,
have
a
pretence
for
laying
claim
to
it
as
a
British
discovery.
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