Word: rainlessness
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Located in Rainless Region...
...exact facts in regard to climate and atmospheric clearness, facilities for work and transportation, communications, etc., to be found in Peru. The country is barren in the extreme and the fact that wood and water is scarce may interfere with the construction of a permanent observatory, but the rainless conditions are favorable as they give assurance that the interruptions of work from causes which are here so common will not occur, and as the station will be placed well up on the mountain side the observers will be above the line of fog, which is the most troublesome thing they...