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During the song, Clytaemnestra comes from the palace to make a thank-offering to the gods, and as the chorus concludes its chant, she describes in a magnificent passage, the progress of the beacon fires from peak to peak. Clytaemnestra then enters the palace, and the first episode comes to a close...
Professor Davis has just returned from a two weeks trip to the mountains of North Carolina. He ascended Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi, and crossing the Blue Ridge at several points, continued the examination of the different strata. Some account of his observations will be given at an early meeting of the Geological Conference...
...dancing, however, the glee and banjo clubs gave their thirty-fourth annual promenade concert at the Hyperion Theatre. The junior promenade on Tuesday evening concluded the programme for the week. The hall in which the dance took place was decorated with gold and white stripes draped from the peak of the roof to the side walls, giving the effect of an oval canopy. Fifty boxes surrounded the hall each with about eight occupants...
Between 1847 and 1875 when he was appointed Professor of Geology in this University, Professor Whitney made important surveys in the Lake Superior and Mississippi mining regions and in Iowa and California. Mt. Whitney, the loftiest peak in the United States was named in his honor...
...Connecticut Valley. The special points of interest will be quarries in the faulted lava beds, a portion of the great fault here crossing the valley with a throw of about 3,000 feet; further the bed of ashes and lava blocks between Meriden and Berlin, and Chauncey Peak, whence a general view of the region may be obtained...