Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club (1859)
Ball, John (Ed.) · Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts (London) · leaf 529
CHAP. xvul.] .SUGGESTIONS FOR ALPINE TRAVELLERS. 495 distant mountain, select an open space which commands a view of the summit. Scattered pine trees will greatly facilitate the operation. Choose a pine tree (PQ, fig. 2) on the side of the plain or valley farthest from the mountain (at) … whose height is sought: measure as accurately as possible the height of rq by any Of the means already proposed, and find the point a from which the top of the pine tree PQ is exactly in a line with the top of the mountain ur: mark the station a, and measure the distance Aq and note it down: if the…
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