Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contriving a portable dark room, in which the process could be carried on at the spot itself, Avhere the view was to be taken. By means of a triangular tent made of glazed oil-cloth this .was accomplished, and upon the most exposed situations in the broad sunshine of noon-day, a dark room was formed large enough to sit upright in, and to prepare the paper for taking the pictures. The difficulty, and indeed the danger, of carrying the apparatus down the sides of rugged and precipitous rocks, can scarcely be imagined. On the sea-shore in the bays, it was easy to pitch the tent and prepare the paper, and infinite surprise was excited by the operations necessary, among the few peasantry passing by. But among the rocks it became impossible, and a small room was hired near the coast, where, to the incon- ceivable wonder of the poor people who owned it, the photographic paper was prepared. The oaost serious inconvenience was experienced n consequence of the exceeding hygrometric itate of the air near the sea-coast. The delicate jquilibrium of the chemical ingredients on the laper, so essential to their susceptibility to the jght, was thus annoyingly interfered with, ind numberless disappointing failures were the •esult. For such an object, the daguerreo- ype is unquestionably the best form of photo-