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...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...
...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...
Harvard will establish a ceast observatory on a peak at Mt. Wilson, California...
While President Eliot was in California in Los Angeles, he visited, with several other gentlemen, as the guests of Mr. Raymond, the excursionist, Mt. Wilson. The trip occupied two days and was made partly by coach, partly on broncho-back. Connected with Wilson's peak by a narrow ridge is a mountain, which Harvard experts tried to get in order to secure photographs of the transit of Venus. They were unable to do so then. Recently, however, the entire summit and its approaches, a space of ten acres, has been tendered to Harvard College. This peak will be the site...
President Eliot formed one of a party which spent the night of April 7, at Camp Martin. This is the peak which Harvard desired to secure for the observation of the last "transit," but failed. It has since been purchased by Judge Magee and Mr. Martin, and tendered to Harvard for future observatory use. The party formally christened it "Mount Harvard...