Overland MonthlyA. Roman and Company, 1897 |
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... feet ) FROM THE WEST By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. The observatory on Etna , built in 1881 , but proposed ... feet ) , cost seventy - four dollars per cubic metre . The cost of M. Janssen's small observatory building on the ...
... feet ) FROM THE WEST By permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. The observatory on Etna , built in 1881 , but proposed ... feet ) , cost seventy - four dollars per cubic metre . The cost of M. Janssen's small observatory building on the ...
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H. HARDER . By permission of the Editor of Himmel und Erde Meteorological Station on the Sonnblick ( 9,843 feet ) he required four and a half hours on the mountain.
H. HARDER . By permission of the Editor of Himmel und Erde Meteorological Station on the Sonnblick ( 9,843 feet ) he required four and a half hours on the mountain.
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... feet ) was occupied from 1874 to 1888 as a meteorological observatory by the U. S. Weather Bureau , and it has been chosen at various times as an astronomical station . Since the year 1891 a railway has connected the summit with the ...
... feet ) was occupied from 1874 to 1888 as a meteorological observatory by the U. S. Weather Bureau , and it has been chosen at various times as an astronomical station . Since the year 1891 a railway has connected the summit with the ...
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... feet ) , on Pike's Peak ( 14,134 feet ) in this country , and those on the Säntis ( 8,200 feet ) , the Sonnblick ( 9,843 feet ) , etc. , in Europe , are the best known . For a solution of many of the problems of meteorology it is neces ...
... feet ) , on Pike's Peak ( 14,134 feet ) in this country , and those on the Säntis ( 8,200 feet ) , the Sonnblick ( 9,843 feet ) , etc. , in Europe , are the best known . For a solution of many of the problems of meteorology it is neces ...
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... feet with its tortuous road and occasional ranches , the opposite slope covered with dark green con- ifers , and scarred in one place by a great black " burn , " and the blue ridges beyond on both sides , dark wooded or covered with the ...
... feet with its tortuous road and occasional ranches , the opposite slope covered with dark green con- ifers , and scarred in one place by a great black " burn , " and the blue ridges beyond on both sides , dark wooded or covered with the ...
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