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WHEN I wrote two articles in NATURE a little while ago, discussing the various methods which I thought might with advantage be employed next Monday, I little thought that it would fall to my lot to come to America to take part in the observations. The fates, however, have so ruled it, and here I am, in what was not long ago called the “Great American Desert,” but by no means a martyr to science; for, although Rawlins—where I now am—is nearly 7,000 feet high, and near the Rocky Mountain divide; although elk and antelope may be shot within a mile of the town; yet the sluggard is roused at six by the voluminous steam whistle of the railway works: there is a thriving “city” and population.
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LOCKYER, J. THE COMING ECLIPSE . Nature 18, 401–402 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018401a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/018401a0