Field Notebook: Maine, New Hampshire 1925
Page 58
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granite metanthus under formed during a uniform Temperature throughout the year. Three instruments re- cord min and three major earthquakes, and each instruments register of one movement either vertically or laterally. The record is made by beam of light falling on a self recording drum havi a sensit- ized paper. It is admitted working order to be the greatest seismological station in the world. Also visited the workshops and computing offices of the Promont Dikron Observatory. There 70 men are working making apparatus, and the astronomic stuff drop from office roof. All live in Pasadena. By auto they go up to the Observatory to make ob- servations. Learn our Observatory or much equipped as this one. Pasadena is an immense place of pretty homes of the faculty of the US War have made themselves, and retired to this balmy climate. For the most, it is 5 miles to traverse the San Gabriel Mt and all is somewhat filled with homes, and down up the mt. aids.