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...instruments which were stolen were purchased for a comparatively small sum but their value was greatly enhanced by the difficulty of transportation to Peru, and to the high mountain summit...
...students of physical geography, as the horizon of observation and comparison gradually widens, are enabled to settle certain principles which are immutable in their relation; those, for example, of the distribution of mountain ranges, and of the climatic diversity of the eastern and western sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically...
...programme for tonight's promenade concert in Music Hall is as follows: 1. Coronation March, Meyerbeer. 2. Overture, "In the Mountain," A. Foote. 3. Waltz, "Tales from the Orient," Strauss. 4. Selection, "Girofle-Girofla," Lecocq. 5. Overture, "Zampa," Herold. 6. Funeral March of a Marionette, Gounod. 7. Gavotte, Bach. 8. Overture, "Lohengrin," Wagner. 9. Overture, "Light Cavalry," Suppe. 10. Selection, "Fencing Master," DeKoven. 11. Waltz, "Les Patineurs," Waldteufel. 12. March, "Fatinitza," Suppe...
...that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they...
...world has been that established by this observatory on Mt. Chachani, at an elevation of 16,650 feet. After making a careful examination of the volcano EI Misti, Professor Bailey has succeeded in establishing a station upon its top at an elevation of 19,200 feet. The mountain as seen from every direction, is an isolated, sharp peak, and is therefore especially suited for the study of the upper atmosphere...