The Higson compactification of any simply connected proper geodesic metric space admits an embedding into a product of adelic solenoids that induces an isomorphism of 1-dimensional cohomology.The Higson compactification of the universal covering Y‾ of a finite complex Y supplied with a lifted from Y metric admits a π1(Y)-equivariant embedding into a product of adelic solenoids that induces an epimorphism of 1-dimensional cohomology.