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THE system of barometric hypsometry described in this treatise—first communicated in 1877 to the Philosophical Society of Washington—was suggested by the needs of the geographical surveys conducted by the Government of the United States in the mountainous region lying between the Great Plains and the Pacific Ocean. The system proposes a new method of observation and computation. It is not of universal application, but the range of work to which it is adapted is large and deserving the attention of the geographer.
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Measuring Heights 1 . Nature 29, 526–527 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029526a0
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