... dredging a good navigable channel along the water-front, and using the earth excavated from this channel to raise the margin of the flat, while, at the same time, by a temporary railroad-track, the high ground of Camp Hill, about the Observatory,... Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy - Page 310by United States. Navy Dept - 1877Full view - About this book
| 1878 - 702 pages
...high ground of Camp Hill, about the Observatory, should be spread over the surface, covering the mud of the flats and that excavated from the Washington...of the city and improve, its health. It would be a paying improvement, whether the land redeemed was laid out and sold for building purposes or planted... | |
| 1878 - 102 pages
...from the Washington channel. The United States Naval Observatory should be removed to the high ground north of the city and thus be lifted above the fogs...of the city and improve its health, it would be a paying improvement whether the land redeemed was laid out and sold' for building purposes or planted... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1878 - 1084 pages
...site of the Naval Observatory. Jf it could be removed to the high grounds north of the city it would be lifted above the fogs and malaria which now interfere...vision and shattering the nerves of the observers. WORK OF THE OBSERVATORY AND ITS APPRECIATION ABROAD. It will not be controverted that if the government... | |
| Steven J. Dick - 2003 - 636 pages
...should be spread over the surface to cover the mud of the flats, and further recommending "that the US Naval Observatory should be removed to the high grounds...vision and shattering the nerves of the observers. "5 Within days, Rodgers had swung into action. "I found upon taking charge of the Observatory," he... | |
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