Word: inland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Macvane lectured last evening before a large audience in the Fogg Art Museum lecture room on "The Guiana Boundary Question." He began by describing the physical characteristics of the country. The coast for fifty miles inland is a low marshy country, suited for the cultivation of sugar. There it begins to slope up till it reaches at its highest point a height of 6000 feet above sea level...
...main observatory was built in 1891 at Arequipa, a town about 80 miles inland and about 8000 feet above sea level. Here on a plateau about 400 feet above the town itself, a large house with a dome has been built, with laboratories connecting. Between this and the sea are two other observatories, one at Mollendo, 8 feet above the sea, the other at La Joya at an elevation of about 4000 feet...
...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. The chief difficulty will be met there in transferring the heavy machinery to the observatory about three miles away, as the roads are very poor and the means of transportation even worse...
...chief struggle however has always been between Great Britain and France. During the last few years the latter country has been more active, and has succeeded in pushing its power inland. The dispute has centered in the attempt of the French to force England to give up her present control of Egypt. These questions have not been settled yet, but it is probable that a treaty will soon be made, in which both nations will have to compromise their claims...
Robert Louis Stevenson was first heard of, Mr. Copeland said, through "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde," though a few had known him before as the author of "An Inland Voyage." He was a neoromantic writer and cared nothing for the affairs of the day. Mr. Stevenson was not a great novelist. This is attributable partly to the fact that he did not write of women or for women. Although women appear in his stories, it was not until "David Balfour" that he introduces a woman who interests us. To be a really great novelist, a writer must deal with more...