Excerpt from Narrative of a Journey to Musardu, the Capital of the Western Mandingoes I was not even able to ascertain directly the seve ral heights of land by means of the boiling point of water, because my thermometers ranged only from 133??? to 140??? Fahrenheit. The highest rise of land was indicated by the aneroid at inches; the boil lug point of which would have been 208??? Fahrenheit. See Davies Peck's Mathematical Dictionary, page 338, Table of barometric heights corresponding to difference of temperature of ...
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Excerpt from Narrative of a Journey to Musardu, the Capital of the Western Mandingoes I was not even able to ascertain directly the seve ral heights of land by means of the boiling point of water, because my thermometers ranged only from 133??? to 140??? Fahrenheit. The highest rise of land was indicated by the aneroid at inches; the boil lug point of which would have been 208??? Fahrenheit. See Davies Peck's Mathematical Dictionary, page 338, Table of barometric heights corresponding to difference of temperature of boiling water.' It is from these tables that I have made approximate esti mates of the elevations of land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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