THOSE DOCTORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 2 March 1883, Page 2

THOSE DOCTORS.

- —• » I I ■ •. • A few feet more or less on a high ; art neitfier":lfere" nor JtKere toa : casual observer.'" Mount Cook, for example, looks just as' well-frqm Timaru. whether . : W.. S. Green says it was when he was up there, or only 11,962 feet, -which • Dr. Hector saySjiSjthejhighest elevation ; reached%ldr i Gree'ri; il m 387 feet . ,makes ; all, the, to three poor useil up, [ foot boj»|. frozen out, half.staryed Alpine, plirobeßi, whp ; have already/'been x. one the-, nuiuntain :' side two'days-'andi nighty and hare i: ;notning : too . lozenges i ; and:Vbo]lfeCl?^^ er ' :■■ It wafirathermeaa of.Dr Hector, there--1 fore, to tryi to-iprpva-thiat Mr Greto 1 had never reached; the summit, mearly ' because tha'irigonometrical.'ineasure- , nientshowedi:l2,349. ( feet.while calcui lations froinVthe 'aneroid!; Barometer a .showedonly; 11,962.; feet, 'JKfhat.can : Dr : Hector know '' abW l 1. He 'never ! ;up ; ;Mr - Green anii, his Dr Hector; sat, snugly,, jn jußoicgi at Weli lmgton 1 and measured tb'eh, eighf; of tl|p p' mountain .fith abopiyaj'kbr.'a v monkfly: v pump^orft!^^ ![ .thiiig: . . and scored points off Excelsior by the - way'he'^'olum"'that Aoiintain j and ;_ when ;heigbt;a^'^aa;: : as v .hetci)uld he i looked- f-atv.-liis, ;r anproid, though it v jwasvjpitoh-;dark:y,and- i( hia, matches ii were . wet," .and ( the ' faithful in- '' strument'informed: hinv.tbat be was . on the top and no mistake;"". He was naturally hurt when : he saw that Dr L;. Hector hj .had not got within 387 feet bftlie summit,'so he, took Dr ' J: HeQtory;%uresana^submj^tedithemto • ProfessorFitzgerald,FeliowoiTrinity . College, Dublfaj and asked that learned i" Fitzis • evidently the right sbrt'of a Fellow to J have by'one'at''a ! pinchiM Ho quickly i proved that Dr Hector hasinadvertently . miscpunted'thyp]a^V'M ;: tiiß' J deciriutls, . '. and that his g- party I pched\ft:i point. 12,357 feet e ' above the' seaV'bp B ;>'jo\ jibov* the ' sunimif V MpHßt ' MMTWm Li. 7T *-I ■ ••-• ";'' '* j ...'J- t'^JifiCl-