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...town on the coast of New England there is a fine avenue of elms reaching from the shore in the centre of the town, back to a hill which lies on the outskirts of the town. In the slope of this hill, practically on the axis of the avenue, there is a spring near which there was signed a treaty between the first inhabitants of the town and the Indians, by which the lands of the town were acquired by the white men. This spring and the land about it has been in private possession for many years...
...party will meet at Pagosa Springs, Colorado, on July 9, and work will last for eight weeks, or until September 2. Camp will be made on the south slope of the San Juan Mountains. The country which the party will encounter is an un-surveyed wilderness, and a systematic geological and geographical survey of a portion of the San Juan Mountains will be made during the first six weeks. At the end of this time the party will take a tour through the higher mountains, and will there study physiographic and geologic formations...
...Camp is located on the slope of Red Hill on the eastern shore of Squam Lake, New Hampshire, about forty miles from Mt. Washington. It comprises 700 acres of farm and woodland with living accommodations, class-rooms, and drafting-rooms for 150 students...
...camp is located on the slope of Red Hill on the eastern shore of Squam Lake, New Hampshire, about forty miles from Mt. Washington, comprising 700 acres of farm and woodland, with nearly two miles of lake shore. The topography is varied and well adapted to surveying problems. There are class and drafting rooms for 150 students. The camp may be reached most conveniently by the Boston and Maine Railroad to Ashland, N H., thence by the Asquam Transportation Company's boats over Squam Lake...
...entrance to the Bowl through the portals brings the visitor to the middle of the seating structure. At that point he will be met by the ushers and directed up or down, right or left, according to the location of his seat. The lower half of the slope from the entrance of the portals to the field is banked with cement, and upon this permanent seats have been placed, so that the Bowl will be finished so far as this part of the structure is concerned. Above the portals to the top of the embankment there is being erected...