Crossword-Solution: GEODETIC 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The National Geodetic Association has established four observatories on the same parallel of latitude--one at Gaithersburg, Maryland, another on the Pacific coast, a third in Japan, and a fourth in Italy--to study these variations by continuous observations from night to night.

Trips with pack-trains to establish geodetic stations and examine the lay of the land were made in all directions.

The topographic, geologic, and geodetic work of the survey did not cease with our departure from the river, but was continued in the remarkable country shown in the relief map opposite page 41, till the relationships and distances of the various features were established and reduced to black and white.

The work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey was during the last fiscal year carried on within the boundaries and off the coasts of thirty-two States, two Territories, and the District of Columbia.

Such observations and surveys were undertaken by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1890 and 1891, while similar work in the same quarters, under British auspices, is believed to give nearly coincident results; but these surveys have been independently conducted, and no international agreement to mark those or any other parts of the one hundred and forty-first meridian by permanent monuments has yet been made.