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Excerpt from The Attraction of the Himalaya Mountains Upon the Plumb-Line in India A sense of loyalty to General Walker renders criticism of his theories an unwelcome task such criticism can only be based on data, that were never at his disposal and that have been accumulated since his death. In 1896, a few months before his death, a paper by General Walker, containing a masterly summary of Indian geodetic work, was issued by the Royal Society in 113 paper General Walker advocated the adoption of groups of astronomical stations for the purpose of eliminating the effects of local attraction he also in it explained certain perplexing phenomena by assuming the existence of a southerly deflection at Kalianpur, the station of reference of the Indian Survey. In 1898 In consequence of this paper and In full accord with General Walker's views, we threw a group of astronomical stations round Kalianpur: their results showed that the deflection at Kalianpur due to local attraction was northerly: this unexpect ed issue created a dilemma: either General Walker had been mistaken in advocating groups, or his assumption of a southerly deflection at Kalianpur had been incorrect. 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.
