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...essays describes the first visit of man to the Three Arch Rocks off the coast of Oregon, a surf-guarded, craggy home of seals and sea-lions, of murres, puffins, petrels and other seafowl in clamorous clouds. There is a chapter on extinct and vanishing species: the sturgeon and condor; an oil field that yielded 2,000 sabre-tooth tigers; peregrine falcons nesting in a skyscraper cornice; swarms of alewives (herring) rushing up a factory creek to spawn. Mr. Sharp has the faculty of reproducing backgrounds, from his native Hingham, Mass., to the swinging chain of peaks around Los Angeles...
...were not so well provided. They ranged all the way from luxurious halls of marble to dark, narrow mud-huts. The most imposing one we took at first to be a great temple, but on closer inspection of the floor and walls we found stains of Inca coffee and condor-eggs, unaccountably thrown there by careless eaters. A number of these places, that seem to have been especially popular with the students, had curious Inca names over their portals, such as "Gualdophi" and "Karelos", which are untranslatable, but seem to have been proper names. "Gualdophi", strangely enough, was also...
...lenses, even though they are most securely packed and protected, Mr. Willard P. Gerrish will accompany them to New York and see them put safely into the steamer's strongroom, where they will remain until the steamer is met at Mollendo, Peru. The telescope will be shipped on the "Condor" of the Merchants Line around South America through the Straits of Magellan to Peru. It is sent this roundabout way to avoid the handling of the lenses by inexperienced hands at the Isthmus of Panama. From Mollendo the instrument will be taken by rail about 75 miles inland to Arequipa...
Lost-An A. T. Cross Stylographic pen. The finder will condor a favor by leaving the same with H. F. Atwood, 25 Grays...