The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 44
at the alti-tude of the Himalayamountains, 24,000 feet,Jim too succumbs. This little experi-ment proves that a liv- + wrawwrting being carried up - -mwnnrffto a reasonable heightwill suffer little dis-comfort, while the onewho climbed to thataltitude will in mostcases become ill. If ahuman John… … DIAGRAM OF THE EXPERIMENT WITH THE GUINEA-PIGS. 30 GREAT MECHANICAL MARVELS It seems to me, said Mrs. Marston, thatyour tunnel and railroad will do much to drivethe poetry out of the Swiss mountains.
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