Astronomy for the use of schools and academies (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908, Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910 · New York : Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 143
e they culminate in arange of peaks whose altitude and rugged aspect must formone of the most terribly grand and romantic scenes which 126 ASTRONOMY, imagination can conceive. The north-east face of the rangeterminates abruptly in an almost vertical precipice; whileover the plain beneath, intensely… … heights of from eighteen thousand to twenty thousand feetabove the plain at their north-east base (Fig. 139). Fig. 140 represents an ideal lunar landscape near the baseof such a lunar range. Owing to the absence of an atmos-phere, the stars will be visible in full daylight. 120. The Valley of the…
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