Magnetic Survey Conducted in Neighbourhood of Tachienlu: Explorer's Irksome Investigation Tachientu, Oct. 29.
Mr, Fred. Crawford Brown of the Carnegie Terrestial Magnetic Survey lett Tuchienlu this morning for Kia ting, Arriving nearly two weeks ago he worked very hard to discover the magnetic content of this mysterious border city. We were beginning to wonder if there was anything left on the frontier that had not been dlscovered. Expeditions and explora~ tions Lave come and gone and carried from the border skull measure ments end jaw measurements and atitudina? and longitudinal measure ments ard the arboreal "type" has een carefully searched for and dis covered and his teeth examined and his "spin" admired with great. sat-Isfaction. Geologists and botanists and rnithropoligiste, "cultural and physical, and scientists of every shade and colour and opinion, in-chiding geographers and philosophers, have discovered and carried away practically all there Is to be known about rhe wild and woolly nomad, the dark heavy browed red robed raba, the truculent, turbulent, inso-Jent lama, the mild, gentle, "otherworldly incarnation and their tents and lnmeseries and dwellings have all been carefully measured and ex-Dlored, till we were forced to. the conclusion, that the border had last been explored. When Ernest Schafer shot a panda, a takin and serow he carefully measured them fo the minutest detail; and when Moore and Budsall climbed the Gong Ga they measured it to the last foot: and when Prip-Muller_ mea sured the lamasery he did so to the Caretuiness and thoroughness have characterized every expedition,—til we can now tell to a nicety the exactness of anything and everything along the frontier. Dr, Smith, the 'Swedish botanist at present on' the border, was able to tell the extent of last' year's rain by the size of this year's rhubarb, We had not thought oot that before, but it la a fact. The Dolan Fxpedition, now on its way to Batang, hes absolutely the last word {in scientific measurement: and ex-editions still unborn will have con= alderable dimeulty measuring what lett, At least ye thought so, till Mr. Fred. Crawford Brown walked on to the border last week. For two solid days, twelve hours each Gay, Mr Brown measured the torres tal' magnetism with the latest struments known to magnetic sur~ vey. It was something of @ shock 10 fo know that thig had not been measured before, but more #0, when we were made' aware that it will have to be measured again. Apparently terrestrial magnetism, ike the Geneva balance sheet, er the chart in relapsing fever, enjoy a
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