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Show Mont IJliiDC Observatory. A second attempt is to be mkde to ' build an observatory at the top of Mont Illane. As the workmen who tunneled last year through the snow just below the summit did not come upon rock, M. Janssen has decided that the building shall be erected upon the frozen snow. A wooden cabin was puturiasr-s-periment at the end of last summer, and iu January and early in the spring it was found that no movement had occurred. oc-curred. According to a Lucerne correspondent cor-respondent the observatory is to be n wooden building eight meters long and four meters wido, and consisting of two. floors, each w ith two rooms. The lower floor, which is to be imbedded in tho snow, will be placed at the disposition of climbers and guides, and the upper floor reserved for the purpose of the ob- , servatory. " |
