[7]Ib., Vol. II, p. 30.
[8]Ib., Vol. II, p. 487. See also pp. 479, 505. Percival’s “Occult Japan” a study of Shinto trances, published in 1894, he did not like at all. It struck him only “as a mood of the man, an ugly supercilious one, verging on the wickedness of a wish to hurt—there was in ‘The Soul of the Far East’ an exquisite approach to playful tenderness—utterly banished from ‘Occult Japan.’” Id., pp. 204, 208. By this time Hearn seems to have come to resent criticism of the Japanese.
[9]The exact elevation proved to be 12,611.
[10]These discoveries have since been doubted.
[11]The theory of the gradual loss of water is very doubtful, but Percival’s main conclusions depend on the present aridity of the planet, not on its assumed history.
[12]In a lecture shortly before his death he said: “Where Schiaparelli discovered 140, between 700 and 800 have been detected at Flagstaff.”
[13]Thereafter the equipment of the Observatory was steadily enlarged—notably by a 42-inch reflector in 1909—until now there are five domes, and much auxiliary apparatus.
[14]Vol. 19, No. 218.
[15]Percival’s statement of this may be found also in “Mars as the Abode of Life,” Chapter III.
[16]Their existence was proved, although the grain of the best plates is too coarse to distinguish between sharp lines and diffuse bands.