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Excerpt from American Eclipse Expedition to Japan, 1887: Preliminary Report (Unofficial) On the Total Solar Eclipse of 1887 Meteorological indications were only of the most general character, and far from precise. The stations of the Japanese Meteorological Service being all on the coasts, there was little to enable one to form even a fair guess as to what the chances in the interior might be. I have to thank the officers of this service for much assistance, espec iallv Dr E. Knipping, the meteorologist of the Imperial Central Observatory at Tokio. On general grounds, he with others thought that the chances of a clear August afternoon were rather better on the west. Coast, near Niigata, say, than elsewhere. And thither I should doubtless have gone without farther enquiry, but that the means Of sea-transportation were uncertain, while the journey by pack-horse over the mountains of western central Japan seemed, with the weighty boxes, in every way inexpedient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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