Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute (1884) (14564750679)

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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

Year: 1868 (1860s)

Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z

Subjects: Science Birds

Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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diately fall, and the less bulky would fall later, according totheir size, but the great portion of the dust and ash would be caught, on itsdownward course, in those upper currents just alluded to, and be carried bythem to the north-east and south-east. Such we find to be the fact, for theship Meda, when to the westward of Cape North-west, Australia, or about1,050 miles south-east of Krakatoa, experienced a fall of dust like fullersearth, which covered the vessel, on the night of the 30th-31st August.And Captain Tierney of the brig Hazard on the 1st September, nearNew Britain and New Ireland, a distance of 3,850 miles due east ofKrakatoa, saw the coloured sun, which was no doubt due to the presence ofdust in the atmosphere drifted eastward with the upper current. Now, turning to the north-east quarter, or the direction in which thesouth-west upper current of the north hemisphere proceeds, we find that inJapan during the 29th, 80th and 31st August, the sun was of a copper 3 I IS N<i

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Ringwood.—On Red Sunsets. 393 colour and had no brightness in it. At Yokohama Mr. Hamilton statesthat on the 29th and 30th the sun was of a blood-red colour and appearedto be obscured. This is at a distance of about 3,000 miles from Krakatoa,which gives a velocity of the upper current, or return trade-wind, of about62 miles per hour; this is not excessive, as I have often measured thevelocity of the north-west upper current at Adelaide as over 80 miles per hour.You may remember that I did not continue the tracking of the dust-cloud from that position assigned to it by Captain Penhallow, in lat. 24° N.long. 140^-° W., on the 25th September, because the European and Americanreports are so peculiar. Apparently, it was seen in England before the restof Europe, viz., on the 4th and 9th November, in California on the 20th,San Francisco 23rd, Italy 25th, New York 27th, and at Berlin on the 28th.So you see that the geographical arrangement is rather mixed in referenceto the order of dates

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