Word: misty
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...effect that the Harvard Observatory in Peru has been attacked and that injury has been done to the valuable instruments. Professor Pickering entertains strong hopes that these rumors are ill-founded, and that they will prove to have been started by the raid on the station situated at El Misti...
Harvard, he explains, has two stations. One is at Arequipa, eight thousand feet above the sea; the other at El Misti, nearly twenty thousand feet above the sea. In the lower station are all the valuable instruments and the headquarters of Professor Bailey, who is in charge of the astronomical work. In the upper station recording instruments of far less cost are placed, and these are visited once in each ten days by one of Professor Bailey's assistants. At such an elevation, no human being could remain and live; but the results, already obtained under the necessary conditions, have...
...probably be some weeks before it is definitely known whether the main station itself has been disturbed. As the whole of Peru is in an unsettled condition, being in the hands of insurrectionists, the assurance will be welcome that nothing more serious has happened than the raid on El Misti...
Until recently the highest meteorological station in the world has been that established by this observatory on Mt. 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...
...home during the erection of the stone-house. Through the assistance of the American Minister of Bolivia, Mr. Anderson, an expedition of much archaeological interest, was made to Tiahuanuco and the sacred islands of the Incas on Lake Titicaca. A trip was also made to the summit of El Misti, a nearly extinct volcano, some nineteen thousand feet in height...