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THE WONNDESFUL VISION OF 1 CITY IN THE AI-MIRAGE THAT 15 GEEN IN ALASKAN REOSONS The absorbetment that a party of] schemific mien will leave Vantouver for Alanca next June to study the so-called “Silent City's sirage di recte attention t 9 phnomenon which has been the subject of much diseussion during the last ten or twelve years. An locg ape of F887 f mining prospector who had exiilory in southern Alaska extensively created m secration int Juneau and Rave pewnpaper correspondents: 4 first class topic by exhibiting a pho toplayh which he pretended to have taken of a vairage. This prospector, oe Willouphby, was particularly familiar with the argian about Gla ery Bay, and se and to have piloted Pintensor Muit’e vessel to the eins cies which now bears the Sncer'e name. The etery which Willoughy told in Judean wae a substantially thi. Several years before hile he wan rear Glacier Day. the Indians told him of the occasional appearance of in what looked like a city auan ended in, the atr. Finally he witnessed the, atreuge spectsele himself. There seemed to be a number of highs, buildings, as of most beautifel and |) Iraposing: architecture, whose #piren | act buttresses dromsiy xugeestnt, the cathrdeals of the old world. Lest ic erery should be distradited. hej made coverel successive attempts tol photograph the pictura, which the Indians called the vilent City.” Whatever doubt my attach to the prnuineness of the picture, the reat of Willoughby’s statement may be accepted weih authorisation, beens: there la plenty of corroborative exi dence, Independent testimony of great calorie that entered by Dr. de Fil ippo de Fillippi, who accompanied the ure at Abrught to Alaska in 1407, and subsequently wrote an ae petit of the Ponden expeditions tay, Mount St. Elias. The duke and his companions reached the summit and had descended part of the way when night overtook them. They en camped on the slow. With return log day they pushed in over the Malarpha toward Yekotat Bey, where lay their allp. The weather was fine. bot there was a breeze. ‘The air eci not calm, and this feet way partly yuplain the im perfections and vnvtéad views of the mirage. Dr. Tilippla=: “The wealbern ridges of Mount Bt. Tige stood not clearly, merging in the long chain of Chsix Hille, which, as it spproath the Malaspina glacier, xecusaed a series of atranze shapes, which we were no longer able to recognize. ‘Their cutlires underwent changes before our very eyes, aseurs i n the forms of pst belfries, auinarets, ari) architectural outlines of Sentastic cathedrals, all of which slowly appeared and disappered, to be succeeded, the buildings of lester’ height, severely rectilinear. This proced to te the mirage known as ‘The Silene City,'” px optical Wusies 1) which the wide Ice surface is prone in common with the burning shade of the desert: ‘The marvelous spec tacle continued throughout the after noon.” It should be added that this play er is fully twenty-five tlles in width, butsss it is something like 180 or SOD miles west of the Mule gla cier, where Willoughby was when caw the mirage. It is open to question whether the scene was precisely the time. Willougby declared, however, that the suspended city saw off to the next warnt of hits, toward Mount Fairweather, which stands between Giscur Bs and Mount St Elias. It is to the vicinity of Fairweather that next syncmies's expedition is to go. Other texts many Tegetding phantets cltex, even at tellight and not in the middle of the day, so furnished by Prof. Rast, the wells known au thority on American volcanore. It was Professor Russell, by the way, who effectually disposed of the theory that Mount £ 1. Elias led volcans. ‘The mirage witnessed by him =s4 at the head of Yahuvnt Bay, or 4 point between Mount St. Elias and ‘Mount Fairweather. spectacles of thin ease kind Baw s een seen on the coast of Greenland, too, Séoresby, waiting thirty odd year ago, remarked: “Hummache of ice assumed the form of castles, obelesse and spliea, and the land pre vented extraordinary features. In pure piaces the distant ice was an ex tremely irregular ang appeared ao full of pinnacses that st rreembled a forest of naked trees, Is othere 10 Dad the character of am extensivet elly, crowded with churches, castles and public edifices.” Gen. A. B W. Gresley, ty hla Amere Sean Weather,” makes a pacing rel erance to the Phenomena. He dots not mention having seen 2 pillage Lisnaets, but Ne sefere to the mer, vrlanly tales which he han hed, were Aayecissly a but thuy apportance to the Arctis regioe, and declares that Lein prepared to believe thems. Practically all writers on the sheary of the mirage hold that, while the tages presented to the abaenes's ay, may be distorted and otteure, they have a ceitale bavie in fort, they are sepresentations (acturate or Inacemtate) of real things, Bapolenn riwg, crearing the mands of lower Feyptae remote villages which were yet below the horizon lifted into Siew, At vey it is not uncommon to] detect chaps that are yet too far away ye ts be seem normally Indeed, there sin multiple images, one above the otter, and some of them upside down, perhaps. But in spite of their scen trictties there is a red ship Involved in the phenomenon. In some mirages there is a post MARTIcation of the objects seen, Lut nip in a vertical direction. Tit pes sage Just quoted from Seaweehy fiTuse testes the point dun a measure. The emert la closely allied to the apparent tuting of a sore above ity tue pork ton. or what sillers eat! “loomin For instanee, @ minige onr rae pecnie at Hastings, England. thr French coat: at Bologna, forty or] ffty wiles day. The curvature of the earth is here ancient to hide city fres. The ether under ordin ary eraditione. Prof. J. D. Everett, of Belfast, Ireland, vna lectur, delive red over a quister of a century ago, dwelt at length on the false Idrar of heciness and the distortion of forma that recalls from tooming. ~Tale vertical magnification 13 shown in cliffs and iceberga at sea said de,, “and produces an effort of pittmartes, spirrs, columns or basaltic cliffs. G + The magnificent columns which constitute a out of the Fata Morgons (2 mirage) in the Streit of Messina use in the manner vo be at tributed to vertices) magnification. An appearance of the same kind, known as the Merry Danvers often seen by boatsmen off the Giants Causeway. In his books on Alackscinta Bruce says that “The Silent City” hae been identified 404 view of Bris tol, England. Buck1 ia paraible that he hee somewhat hastily accepted someone else's conviction on this subject. At any rate, there are vex tal reasons for demanding further evidence. It is doubtful whether any object shown in a mirage was ever more than Gfry or 100 wlirs from the obserysi, and in many instances Ir has been much nearer. From Dr. Filippi’s account of the expenence of the duks of Absuesi parry Ir is evi dent that a line of hills only a few miles away afforded the basis of what they behefit. Mr. Brace mentions the popular suspicion that Willoughby“s picture was a fake.” and ecde that he irimself under such obligations to the protptctors that he would Daidly confuy the truth if he had any doubts of his own. We are any fancied resemblance between that pctogsspa 200 Bristol will met count for much. Dr. Filippi’s book coutsiue Wa represent med of the ‘Billet City’’ although it fs full of otter photographs of Alaskar #reaety Perhaps the image was too unshady for a camel 19 register at. Tf the Vancourst rxpedition belnge bark = well attested picture that tooka like Briytal, one will be justified in taking stock in the notion ¢ identity. But until then I is wiser to suspend fades ment or so discosdit the idea alto gether. Indeed, the phenomena Io enough of 4 wlarvel without any such Anumption.—New Fark Tibune, A casework easy and remunerative, laianee fions the central part of town, hee no tetera for them, and from $43 to $184 month, clear of exper net artikes them aan fairly good iacuma .The eintecte for serving in a special capacity does not afflict men se lyioes women, par do the forme, object ta liveries ana badge of sexy iene, hy ip a fact tooi whomever mes. |eere or white, have established Ciimetives do domestic a prvier the [women have been completely disvent but Tazz dors not mean that to work for less wonsy. They do not. A good Chiisman for yoners! Noussaatk, a tmoekee everything” min, as he expresses st, always by tarnda from R20 to $30 a month on 134 Pacif= east, Idzho and Montana, willy gate in the rime placte x paid Stars $414 to 818. The fiftiest Mie in am American city occurred at Réstoc, August 8, 1678. By thin confagration 150 buildings were destroyed, the zone Aminnting is over two hundred thousand pounds scerling.
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