Possibly the first and last altitudes may give the rate of going, and the frequent distances between may give approximate longitude.
I took distances and altitudes alternately with a bullet for a weight on the key of the chronometer, taking successive altitudes of the sun and distances of the moon.
As I thought it probable that we should have an opportunity of observing an eclipse of Jupiter's first satellite, I took the following altitudes for the time.
June 18th, altitudes for the time with artificial horizon.
The bull-dogs frequent the valleys of the Canadian Rockies, varying locally in their numbers, and seem to prefer low altitudes and a considerable degree of heat, for they are always most voracious and numerous on hot dry days.
These animals usually frequent high altitudes at, or above the tree line, where they build large nests among the rocks and lay up a store of provisions for winter time.
Their habits of frequenting high altitudes and inaccessible parts of mountains will tend to preserve them for many years from the relentless hunter.
The snowfall in winter is so great that it remains all summer at much lower altitudes than in the Rockies, and supplies glaciers, which descend perhaps a thousand feet nearer to sea-level.
Captain Thuillier (the Deputy Surveyor General) agrees with me in considering that Colonel Wilcox's altitudes are probably much under-estimated, as those of other Himalayan peaks to the westward were by the old surveyors.
A mountain range such as this, attaining altitudes at which vegetable life ceases, and the support of animal life is extremely difficult, constitutes an almost impassable barrier against the spread of all forms of living creatures.
With the tables of the sun's declination then available, he could calculate his latitude by meridian altitudes of the sun taken with his astrolabe.
There are of course still greater variations, even sixty or seventy degrees sometimes where the altitudes are very high, but this is often too great for the tuberculous patients to react properly to, in their rundown conditions.
These milder climates require much less exercise of the will, but that very fact leaves them without the all-important therapeutic quality which the lower altitudes possess.
These remarks apply to conditions which exist over low altitudes all over the earth.
It is not difficult for aviators to reach and maintain altitudes of five thousand feet and over, but at that elevation it is impossible to distinguish anything but the movement of large forces.
It is estimated that there are in all over nine hundred glaciers in this section of the range, and although they often rival those of the Alps in size, they do not descend generally to such low altitudes as the latter.
One should live at altitudeswhen one could--they braced and simplified; and for a happy interval he never touched the earth.
It breaks up into long spurs southwards, deep amongst which are hidden the valleys of Kafiristan, almost isolated from each other by the rugged and snow-capped altitudes which divide them.
He was a true and a whole-hearted artist, who, as a brother poet well said, "still climbed the clear cold altitudes of song.
But the right-angled triangles PHA, PHB are obviously equal; and the sun has therefore the same altitudes at those two instants, the one before, the other after noon.
One of these rocks, the Permian Brockram, occurs nowhere in situ at altitudes exceeding 700 feet, yet in the course of its short transit it was lifted about a thousand feet above its source.
The facts awaiting explanation are the occurrence in the boulder-clays of Glamorganshire, at altitudes up to four hundred feet, of flints, and of igneous rocks somewhat resembling those of the Archæan series of the Wrekin.
There is a feeling about this part of the work which lifts it to the highest altitudes of art; the sense of sordid realism vanishes away--one recognizes that there is SOUL here.
But he couldn't, for the difference between the two altitudes is more than three thousand feet.
Frequent stops for breathing had to be made and saddle girths adjusted as higher altitudes and steeper grades were encountered.
The Ute ponies were getting fat on new buffalo and bunch grass, and the tender-eyed does were seeking higher altitudes when Jack again reached the old trail leading to the Indian village on Rock Creek.
June, when the sun begins to move southward, bringing shorter days and smaller altitudes until the Christmas season, when again it is reversed and the sun moves northward.
O 2 obtained through measuring the meridian altitudesof any star as seen from 1 and 2.
Only one thing was certain: these altitudes were gradually diminishing; and hence they knew that they were mounting the plateau.
The overshadowing altitudes and majesties of the chasm moved him as might oratorios or other solemn music.
If words are feeble in presence of the heights and depths of the Colorado, they are impotent in presence of the altitudes and abysses of great passion.
The altitudes above the ground are measured in metres, roughly converted into feet; the letters indicate the direction of the wind, the figures its speed in miles per hour.
Lots of clouds at different altitudes to bother the Pilot, and the air none to clear for the observation of landmarks.
I am a product of those two factors, and at the speeds at which Aeroplanes fly to-day, and at the altitudes and consequent density of air they at present experience, I increase at about the Square of the Speed.
Luckily again, Mr. Colbrith omitted all talk of business, drawing his end of the table into a discussion of the effects of the dry altitudes in advanced stages of tuberculosis.
Penfield had been apparently listening avidly to the president's praise of the dry altitudes as a sure cure for consumption, but now he had his face in his plate.
In high altitudes, where nutrition is scant, the birthrate of boys is high as compared with lower altitudes in the same locality.
They are not so easily suffocated, and are reported to endure charcoal fumes better, and live in high altitudes where men cannot endure the deprivation of oxygen.
But that one is able still to work, and work hard, at these altitudes is evident by the experiences of Dr.
As the whole metabolism of the body is kept in working order by the oxygen supplied through the lungs, the obvious result of high altitudes is to interfere with the various processes occurring in the system.
For in the rarefied air at high altitudes there is insufficient oxygen to promote the normal oxidation of bodily tissue.
They are testing the capacity of the human race to stand the highest altitudes on this earth which is its home.
In aeroplanes considerably higher altitudes have been reached with the help of oxygen.
He had been making experiments in the use of oxygen at high altitudesand was still out in India preparing to continue these experiments on Mount Kamet in 1921.
We do not know that it is physiologically possible at such high altitudes for the human body to make the efforts required to lift itself up even on the simplest ground.
The high altitudes of the Andean region also introduce vertical zones of temperature, modified to some extent by the rainless plateaus of the north, and by the excessive rainfall of the south.
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