Laredo Weekly Times

SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH.

It might not be out of place, now that the schools are all opening up again for another session, for the children to read over and memorize some of these words and their meaning, which are to be found used promiscuously in a book just gotten out by the United States Geodetic and Coast Survey in speaking of the figure of the earth and Isostasy from actual measurements. Here are two paragraphs taken at random:

"The logical conclusion from the study of the geoid contours for the United States, taken in connection with the fact already noted that the computed topographic deflections are much larger than the observed deflections of the vertical, is that some influence must be in operation which produces an incomplete counterbalancing of the deflections produced by the topography leaving much smaller deflections in the same direction."

Or, if this isn't lucid enough, here's another:

"The problem at present under consideration is that of constructing the contour lines which will represent the relation of the irregular ellipsoid of revolution known as the Clark's spheroid of 1866, which is supposed to be in the position fixed by the adopted United States Standard Datum."