Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . the advice of Director Gonnessiat, of the Observatory of ^Algiers,it was decided to locate on the plateau some 50 to 100 miles directlysouth of Algiers. Mr. Abbot had the good fortune to meet DirectorMestral of the Ecole Roudil, near Ben Chicao, to obtain from himpermission to observe from a hill situated about l^ mile east of a littlehamlet called Bassour, and to live in a 4-room stone farm-house in 4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 Bassour, belonging to the Ecole Roiulil. The observing station was
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . the advice of Director Gonnessiat, of the Observatory of ^Algiers,it was decided to locate on the plateau some 50 to 100 miles directlysouth of Algiers. Mr. Abbot had the good fortune to meet DirectorMestral of the Ecole Roudil, near Ben Chicao, to obtain from himpermission to observe from a hill situated about l^ mile east of a littlehamlet called Bassour, and to live in a 4-room stone farm-house in 4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 Bassour, belonging to the Ecole Roiulil. The observing station waslocated in latitude 36° 13 20 X., longitude 2° 51 30 E., at an eleva-tion of 1,160 meters. With the exception of one French family, all the neighbors duringmost of the four months stay were x\rabs. A screen-door added tothe house by the Americans to hinder the entrance of house-flies,proved to have a no less valuable effect in keeping out uninvitedvisitors. Ancient methods of agriculture prevail in this is the staple crop. The ploughing is done with wooden. Fk;. l—()l)ser\ing station in Bassnur. Photograph hy Al)1)ot. ploughs, and the grain is threshed by treading out with oxen or mules,just as probably was done in the same country thousands of years ago. The menage for the party was in the hands of Airs. Abbot, whoaccompanied her husband, and doubtless owing to this circumstanceno sickness of anv kinrl occurred while the observers were in thefield. A complete spectrobolometric outfit was erected, including a smalldark-room shelter for the photographic recording shelter was built by Messrs. Abbot and Brackett out of packingboxes. The apparatus was the same that Mr. Abbot had used in 1009,and 1910, in his brief expeditions to the summit of Mount Whitney, NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II California (4,420 meters). It is rather a new departure with thebolometer, that delicate instrument which measures the millionth ofa degree rise of tem
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