The Mid-Station on Ben Nevis

In the year 1896 the Directors of the Ben Nevis Observatories arranged that a temporary observing station be opened at the hut on the road half-way up the hill. A barometer, rain-gauge, and set of thermometers were provided, also a Richard barograph, thermograph, and hygrograph. The hut stands on steeply sloping ground facing westward, and is 2190 feet above sea-level. The barometer and barograph were placed in the hut; and two Stevenson screens for the thermometers, the thermograph, and the hygrograph were placed on the hill-side in its vicinity along with the rain-gauge. Though the site was not an ideal one for the purpose, being on the side of a hill and not on a peak, it was considered that valuable information as to the condition of the air between the level of the sea and that of the summit might be obtained by occasional periods of observation at this Mid-Station. This expectation has been realised, especially as regards the distribution of temperature in summer.

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Effects of atmospheric temperature and pressure on the performance of a vehicle

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part D Journal of Automobile Engineering ◽

10.1243/09544070260137499 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 216 (6) ◽

pp. 473-477 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

S M C Soares ◽

J R Sodre

Keyword(s):

Ambient Temperature ◽

Sea Level ◽

Fuel Injection ◽

Atmospheric Temperature ◽

Intake Manifold ◽

Atmospheric Conditions ◽

Fixed Temperature ◽

Vehicle Performance ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road

This paper describes the influence of the atmospheric conditions on the performance of a vehicle. Tests were carried out on the road, under different conditions of ambient temperature, pressure and humidity, measuring the acceleration time. The tested vehicle featured a gasoline-fuelled four-cylinder engine, with variable intake manifold length and multipoint fuel injection. The vehicle was tested at sea level and at an altitude of 827 m above sea level, with the ambient temperature ranging from 20 to 30°C. The times required for the vehicle to go from 80 to 120 km/h, from 40 to 100 km/h and to reach distances of 400 and 1000 m leaving from an initial speed of 40 km/h at full acceleration were recorded. The results showed the vehicle performance to be more affected by changes in the atmospheric pressure than in the temperature. An average difference of 3 per cent in the time to reach 1000 m, leaving from the speed of 40 km/h at full acceleration, was found between the atmospheric pressures tested, for a fixed temperature.

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On the Tumulus of Choban Tepeh in the Troad

The Journal of Hellenic Studies ◽

10.2307/623833 ◽

1897 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

pp. 319-320 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Frank Calvert

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

The Road ◽

Ancient City ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

On The Road ◽

The Hill

I derive the materials of the present paper from some memoranda which I find amongst my archaeological notes and which relate to certain explorations to which I was not a party, made so long ago as 1887. I have thought that the particulars then obtained may be deemed sufficiently interesting to deserve a record in the history of Trojan archaeological discovery.The subject is one of the four small tumuli dotted about and near the hill of Balli-Dagh, the crest of which according to the now exploded theory of Le Chevalier (1785) was supposed to represent the Pergamos of Troy. In a memoir contributed to the Journal of the Archaeological Institute of 1864, I proved that the site in question was no other than that of the ancient city of Gergis. In the same paper I gave an account of the results of the excavation of one of the group of three tumuli on Balli-Dagh, the so-named Tomb of Priam. The other two, namely Le Chevalier's Tomb of Hector, and an unnamed hillock, were excavated respectively by Sir John Lubbock (about 1878) and Dr. Schliemann (1882) without result. The present relates to the fourth mound on the road between the villages of Bournarbashi and Arablar (as shown in the published maps), which goes by the name of Choban Tepeh (Shepherd's hillock) and the Tomb of Paris, according to Rancklin (1799).

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Art. VII.—An Account of Jerusalem, translated for the late Sir H. M. Elliot, from the Persian text of Náṣir ibn Khusrú's Safarnámah

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ◽

10.1017/s0035869x00016178 ◽

1873 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 142-164

Author(s):

A. R. Fuller

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road ◽

The Hill ◽

The City

On the 3rd of Ramazán, I left Ramlah, and went to a village called Khátún, and from thence to another, which they styled Kariatu-l-'Anab (Grape hamlet). On the road I observed plenty of wild rue growing spontaneously on hill and dale. I also noticed at this village a very delightful spring of water gushing out of a rock, where they had constructed reservoirs, and built edifices. From thence I proceeded up some rising ground, under the impression that I was ascending a hill, and that on going down the other side the city would lie before me. After I had climbed the ascent however for a short way, a vast wilderness lay in my front, partly stony, and partly showing merely the bare earth. At the summit of the hill stands the city of the “Baitu-l-Mukaddas” (Sacred Tabernacle, i.e. Jerusalem), between which and Tarábulis, whichis on the coast, are 56 parasangs, and from Balkh to Jerusalem 876.

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4. There was also presented by Professor Forbes, on the part of R. S. Q. Kilbee, Esq., a collection of Fossil Shells, from the great deposit near Uddevalla, in Sweden

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s0370164600038840 ◽

1845 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 297-299

Keyword(s):

The Road ◽

Vertical Opening ◽

Entire Depth ◽

On The Road ◽

The Hill ◽

The Town

This bed lies from 200 to 300 feet above the level of the sea, an arm of which extends to that town, but no shells are to be found upon its shores. It covers a space of several square miles, and is coated with soil, which in many places has been removed, the shells being taken to mend the roads, as well as for building purposes, and for manure. Such openings upon the surface are frequent on the hill just above the town, on the road to Gottenburg; but a mile or two on that to Wennersburg, and to the left, there is a large vertical opening, exposing to view from thirty to forty feet of the bed's depth, its entire depth being as yet unknown.

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Short Story

Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474454438.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 147-158

Author(s):

Sarah Laing

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

Retaining Wall ◽

Retaining Walls ◽

The Road ◽

Frida Kahlo ◽

On The Road ◽

The Hill ◽

First Time ◽

Death Date ◽

Wood Pigeon

Laura had been worried all day about crashing the car – the last time she’d driven Monica, she’d overtaken a cyclist on a blind rise and Monica had flinched, anticipating the crunch of a head-on collision that would ricochet the oncoming car against the Frida Kahlo mural on the concrete retaining wall. The mural was primitive, done by a midnight gang with no council mandate. Ian Curtis’s death date was up there too, and either someone continued to touch up the paint, or it had everlasting properties. Why were people in Wellington so fixated on Ian Curtis’s death? Other people had suicided subsequently. Kurt Cobain, Robin Williams, Antony Bourdain. There were no retaining walls near where she lived and the hill crumbled, cascaded, little slumps of ochre rock strewing the road. There was also a sign, warning drivers about low-flying kereru, but the last time she’d biked up the hill, she saw a wood pigeon on the road, its wings iridescent green and blue, scarlet blood starbursting its head. It was the first time she’d seen one with its eyes shut....

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I.—Excavations At Sparta, 1907: § 9.—A Sanctuary on the Megalopolis Road

The Annual of the British School at Athens ◽

10.1017/s0068245400002884 ◽

1907 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 169-173

Author(s):

Guy Dickins

Keyword(s):

Short Distance ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road ◽

The Right ◽

The Hill ◽

High Road

Pausanias in his description of Laconia noted two sanctuaries within a short distance of Sparta on the road to Arcadia and Megalopolis The modern bridle-track leading in the same direction past the villages of Kastaniá and Leondári crosses the Acropolis hill, and emerges into the plain of the Eurotas about a quarter of a mile from the iron bridge on the Sparta-Tripolis high road; it then passes between a shoulder of the hill Análipsis and the vineyards on the right bank of the river. We may assume that the ancient road followed the same course, at any rate for some miles from Sparta, since any other direction would entangle it in the network of low hills and torrent-beds stretching from the river to Taygetus itself.

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A Bronze Age Urnfield on Vinces Farm Ardleigh, Essex

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society ◽

10.1017/s0079497x00016297 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 178-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

F. H. Erith ◽

I. H. Longworth

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Sea Level ◽

The Road ◽

Artificial Drainage ◽

On The Road ◽

Geographical Feature

Ardleigh lies midway between Colchester on the River Colne, and Manningtree on the estuary of the Stour, the distance from each place being about four miles. Vinces Farm covers an area roughly half a mile to a mile south of Ardleigh church on the road to Great Bromley. The farm lies on a plateau, 110 feet above sea level, and has no particular geographical feature other than its flatness. The soil is a medium loam over gravel and requires no artificial drainage. Grid Ref. TL/056284.The land has been under arable cultivation for centuries, but not until 1955 was a deep-digging plough introduced, ploughing to a depth of a foot or more. In September of that year the plough brought up sherds of Roman pottery in the Long Eleven Acres field (O.S. 716) and with these, sherds of Bronze Age ware.

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