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THE new Edinburgh Royal Observatory, which was formally opened by the Secretary for Scotland on the 7th inst., is situated on Blackford Hill, some two and a half miles due south of the centre of the city, in a public park, of which about three acres have been transferred to the Crown by the Edinburgh Town Council. The centre of the observatory is about 440 feet above the level of the sea., The name of Blackford Hill will suggest to many readers the lines from “Marmion”:
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In Prejevalsky's "From Kulja, across the Tian-shan to Lob-nor," London, 1879. foot-note, p. 177, the word Muzart, or Mussart, is stated to mean "Snowy."
The old Chinese pilgrim, Hwen-tsang, who followed this same route, observed that the travtllers passing thereby must sleep on the ice (Schuyler "Turkestan," London, 1876, vol. i. p. 391).
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The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Nature 53, 605–607 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053605e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053605e0