The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 145
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… … Fig. 141. 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…
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