Volume 1 — CHAPTER VI.
Reading edition
Precautions for the Security of the Ships and their Stores—And for the Health and Comfort of the Crews.—Establishment of Theatrical Entertainments and Schools.—Erection of an Observatory and House on Shore.—State of Health at this Period.—Partial Disruption of the Ice in the Bay.—Anchors and Cables taken to the Shore.—Gradual Increase of Cold, Appearance of the Aurora Borealis on several Occasions, and various other Meteorological Phenomena to the Close of the Year 1821.