"Aneroid barometer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slow. One stretch of fifteen miles, which it took us six hours to cover, was as formidable as any part of the Turkoman desert along the Transcaspian railway. At an altitude of only six hundred feet above the sea, according to our aneroid barometer, and beneath the rays of a July sun against which even our felt caps were not much protection, we were half-dragging, half-pushing, our wheels through a foot of sand, and slapping at the mosquitos swarming upon our necks and faces. ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben |
