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...Said: Various expeditions have been made to find a suitable place for a meteorological laboratory in high altitudes, one to Colorado in 1888 and another to California in 1889. Mr. Bailey in his search hit upon the Andes at a place in about 16 degrees south latitude. In this region it is very dry, there being an annual rainfall of but about four inches. The rain all falls between January and March and during nearly all the rest of the year the sky is clear and unobscured...
...description of the photographs taken at various times, which contain the star is given and an examination of all the photographs of the region containing this star, sixty-two plates in all, taken between May 17,1889, and Mar. 5, 1895, shows that no trace of the star is visible, although on some of them stars as faint as the fourteenth magnitude are clearly seen. On nine plates, taken between April 8, and July 1, 1895, the star appears and its photographic brightness diminishes during that time from the eighth to the eleventh magnitude...
...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...
...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...
...Various other schemes are inadequate. - (a) Surface roads. - (1) Do not eliminate danger. - (2) Do not relieve congestion. - (3) Entail great expense. - i. e. Street widening. - (b) Elevated roads undesirable in region of subway. - (1) Injure and destroy property. - (2) Do not abolish grade crossings of tracks. - (3) Not adapted to narrow, winding streets...