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evening and morning, sunset and sunrise; the light
having a warmer tint before than after midnight. I
even ventured to affirm that a change took place at the
moment of midnight. Professor Hildebrand, the artist,
agreed with me in this; while one of the English
passengers stoutly contested it, maintaining that we
were self-deluded: the rest were neutral. I offered to
test it by a “crucial” experiment, thus: — I was to
abstain from looking at any watch or clock for two or
three hours before midnight, and yet to tell by the
change of light the moment of midnight, within five
minutes one way or other; the sun being below the
horizon or behind the hills. The experiment was tried
on three successive nights, each time successfully; this
success was most remarkable on the first night, when we
were ashore at Bodö. According to the united testimony
of our watches and the ship’s clock, I was some twenty
minutes wrong; on further inquiry, however, it
appeared that the ship’s clock had not been set since we
left Tromsö, which is nearly five degrees to the west of
Bodö, and as I had proclaimed it midnight twenty
minutes before the clock, 1 was not above two or three
minutes wide of the true time.
We afterwards found that our friend who so stoutly
denied any difference of tint before and after midnight,
was colour-blind as regards the complementary colours
of red and green: though he had a keen, piercing sight,
he could not distinguish any difference of colour between
the red cover of Murray’s “Handbook to Norway” and
the green cover of Bolin’s edition of “Forrester’s
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