. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . -threefeet in diameter, and twenty feet high. These far-reaching instru-ments are used for much of the difficult and important astronomicalwork for which this observatory is famous. A transit circle, with anobject-glass of inches, is used for observations of the sun andmoon, and some of the planets. The best apparatus is to be foundin the observatory, and from month to mont
. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . -threefeet in diameter, and twenty feet high. These far-reaching instru-ments are used for much of the difficult and important astronomicalwork for which this observatory is famous. A transit circle, with anobject-glass of inches, is used for observations of the sun andmoon, and some of the planets. The best apparatus is to be foundin the observatory, and from month to month a large amount of laboris performed in the way of astronomical researches and ALONG THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
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