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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



have been completed. The necessary supphes 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 cx;cupation, 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 



