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Title: Official proceedings
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Railway Club of Pittsburgh
Subjects: Railway Club of Pittsburgh Railroads
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : The Club
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ers are of immense extent. Plere is the volcanic craterCopernicus at the upper end of the Appennine range, that in allprobability is the last or one of the last craters to form whenthe cooling surface of the moon solidified and here spent its lastexpiring force. Below it you see the beautiful range of theAlps, and a little to the west a valley extending for more thansixty miles along the base of the mountain. Not long ago acleft was discovered running along almost the entire length.No doubt it would be an excellent place for a railroad to carrypassengers up into the summer resorts at the base of the beauti-ful mountains and quite likely if some of our enterprisingPittsburg railroad men were there they would have it built ina jiffy and in all probability make it pay even at excursion ratesfor the inhabitants (?) of the moon. But this world is dead and cold owing to the almost totalabsence of an atmosphere; its temperature at lunar midnight is 240 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh.
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MOON IN HER FIRST QUARTER. Photo by Ritchey, Yerkes Observatory. Building of a Universe. 241 no doubt very near the cold of outer space, or in all likelihoodat least 450 degrees below zero. Fahrenheit. And it is now knownthat the temperature never gets above our freezing point. Adescription of the beautiful features upon the lunar surface, deadthough it be, would take too much of our time, and thereforewe must pass from this dead world to the conclusion of ourstudy. Is this dead world the climax of our evolution? Let us see. A few years ago there burst forth in the constellation otPerseus a bright star, which on the second night of its appear-ance rivaled Sirius in its brilliancy. Telegrams from the discov-erer reached us the next day. The next night was cloudy, buton the second night after the announcement the spectroscopewas attached to the telescope and it was seen that a great con-flagration was taking place in that part of the heavens. Butwhen did it take place? When was it disco

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