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on the summit of El Misti, at an elevation of nineteen thousand feet. The conditions for reaching great altitudes are exceptionally good in

The City of Arequipa.

this part of Peru, but even here it was found impossible, with the funds available for this purpose, to keep observers at the summit, in order to obtain systematic personal observations. It was necessary to depend