A SUMMER WITHOUT NIGHTS.
To the summer visitor in Sweden there is nothing more striking than the almost total absence of night. At Stockholm, the Swedish capital, the sun goes down a few minutes before ten o'clock, and rises again four hours later, during a greater part of the month of June. But the "four hours the sun lies hidden in the frozen north are not hours of darkness the refraction of his rays as he passes around the north pole makes midnight as light as a cloudy midday, and enables one to read the finest print without artificial light at any time during the ' night.' At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia there is a mountain on the summit of which the sun shines perpetually during the five days of June 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23. Every six hours during this season of continual sunshine a steamer leaves Stockholm crowded with visitors anxious to witness the phenomenon. At the same place during winter the sun disappears, and is not seen for weeks ; then it comes in sight for 10, 15, and 20 minutes, gradually lengthening its stay until finally it stays in sight continuously for upwards of 120 hours.
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New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 16
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