The hypsometer that day showed a descent of 600 feet.
The hypsometer is only an instrument for determining the boiling-point, which gives one the height above the sea.
That is our last hypsometer record, as I had the misfortune to break the thermometer.
The hypsometer was one of my chief delights, and nobody could have been more disgusted than myself at its breaking.
Other things we left there were a sextant with a glass horizon, a hypsometer case, three reindeer-skin foot-bags, some kamiks and mits.
From the distance of the sea horizon we guessed our height to be about 1,000 feet, and in the evening the hypsometershowed the guess to be very nearly right.
The hypsometer and barometer, however, were not to be deceived, and both fell in precisely the same degree as they had risen before.
Besides the astronomical observations, the barometric pressure, temperature, force and direction of the wind, and amount of cloud were noted three times daily; every evening a hypsometer reading was taken.
The readings of the hypsometer gave practically the same result day after day; the ascent we were looking for failed to appear.
The instruments we carried were two sextants and three artificial horizons -- two glass and one mercury -- a hypsometer for measuring heights, and one aneroid.
To begin with, Bowers broke the only hypsometer thermometer, and so they were left with nothing to check their two aneroids.
For measuring the heights of trees, Hossfeld had already a satisfactory instrument in 1800; a very large number of improvements in great variety followed, with Faustmann’s mirror hypsometer probably in the lead.
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