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have been completed. The necessary supplies were immediately pur 

 chased, and transported without charge from Boston to the Wing road, 

 by the B. L. & N., Concord, and B. C. & M. railroads. After all our 

 efforts, however, the telegraphic apparatus sent from Washington, and 

 some other necessary articles, arrived too late for the last train ; and these 

 were taken around the mountain, partly by Prof. Hitchcock and partly 

 by Mr. Huntington, and thence to the summit, on the carriage-road. 

 The distance traversed was nearly eighty miles, over a very muddy and 

 hilly route a tedious journey, whose difficulties can never be appreciated 

 by the public. Several days were spent upon the summit in preparing 

 the building for occupation, partitioning off a room, laying double floors, 

 setting up the stoves, etc. Mr. Huntington remained upon the mountain 

 till the rooms were completed for occupation, the Kerite wire laid, and 



Fig. 12. LAYING THE CABLE ON JACOB S LADDER. 



everything in readiness for the incoming of the party. He came down 

 October 22. 



A new circular, adapted to the changed circumstances, was now pre 

 pared and widely distributed. In this it was briefly stated that the 

 arrangements for the occupation of the mountain had been completed ; 

 the observers, photographers, and telegrapher, selected; the needful 



