| Show colder than the be north pole walter wellman who mho has been to the arctic regions himself says that mel villes theory of an eternal ocean ice cap is as indefensible as the old notion of an open polar sea at the pole the mean annual temperature is reckoned at 2 degrees decrees F above zero lu in summer it is doubtless often so warm there that the lucky explorer who reaches its neighborhood will pull at his sledge with bare badda and without any coat to him during throe three months of summer bummer the mercury would riot not fall bolow below 10 degrees above zero he be might pass a whole winter there without lee iee ing the tl e mercury drop any lower than it occasionally falls in manitoba and northern minnesota but ho he would find a steadier cold for throe three months probably he be would have no higher temperature than 20 degrees below arctic climate like many other things in that region is little understood by people who have dot given tho the subject special study in that country it is always cold when aheu the wind widd blows summer or winter whitey but even in winter abon the wind is light or still mill a well clad man can move about in comfort |
