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surveying operations in those left. P art of our course led up a
raise whose vertical angle ‘a veraged abOfft 5 9 ^ e g f e e h /> s t about
the limit Of sight through our ihstnim e^t's? A dd to the difficulty
offsetting up the futher."circumstance that the df aft was a ^miniature
g a le ' down the raise so th a t th e candle’s- had 'to be held upside
down ffiostibf th e tim e'no persuade th e m .to g g g | at all and/yoti
have .some idea of the ease and .coffifart'and lack d£ p r o f a n i^ th a t
"characterises some' m ihe^tinveyingP - . ■
The w eather was p e rs ^ s t^ itlx ^ ^ W y and cpld with hr^puent
showers, j Solar ’observations 'Wdre
the question,
star
'd ise rv & o n s. The bulky volum e,of the E phem dres w e .had lugged
along was u tterly useless.' ‘ The only ,thing approaching a night
observation - w as one taken by -a member of the party who was
inclined to so m n a m b u lism :/W e ,found him in 4>Hdf attire trying to
fpcus on the light Oh the W s tf e r house. I t is necessary to add,
p e r h a p l ^ t h a t '^ w a s ^ t e V b i ■ M 9 H
people w hot
W h
o n e ’¿ye open.
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'/A ll in all t h e ’t r l p ^ a s pre-ep^ine'ntl^^uceessful and it would not
be rig h t-to "close w ith o u t. paying some tribute'- to the excellent
booking which regaled B ’d u r in g ^ H
we "haW r A '
the people pf Black B utte an impression half | | pleasant as th at
we carried -away', th e n indeed m ay the trip be voted- fortunate.
W alter 'M P Eaton; ^ in tfn g , 09.