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Account of 

 mountains : 

 Europe, 



ON THE DECLIVITIES OF MOUNTAINS. 



I (hall now ftate the principal obfervations relative to this 

 obje£t, that have been made in different parts of the world. 



In Europe. 



1 . The mountains that feparate Sweden from Norway ex- 

 tend from north to fouth, their weftern fides arejleep and the 

 eaflern gentle, 1. Bergm. Erde Befchreib. p. 157. 



2. The Carpathian mountains run from E. to W. their 

 fouthern fides towards Hungary are deep, their northern to- 

 wards Poland moderate, Fofter, § 46. 



3. Dr. Walker, profeflbr of natural hiftory at Edinburgh, 

 oblerved that the coafts and hills of Scotland are deeper and 

 higher on the weftern fide than on the eaflern ; Jamifon's Mi- 

 neralogy of Shetland, p. 3, However, Jamifon obferved, 

 that the fouth fide of the ifle of Arran is the Ioweft, and the 

 north fide the highefr, p. 51. 



4. The mountains of Wales are gentle on the eaflern and 

 fteep on the weftern fides. 



5. The mountains ofParthery, in the county of Mayo, are 

 fteep on the weftern fide. 



6. The mountains which feparate Saxony from Bohemia de- 

 fcend gently on the Saxon or northern fide, but are fteep on the 

 Bohemian or fouthern fide ; Charpent, p. 75. The fouthern 

 declivity is to the northern as fix to two, 2d Bergm. Journ. 

 1792, p. 384 and 385. 



7. The mountains which feparate Silefia from Bohemia run 

 nearly from E. to W. yet are fteeper on the northern or Silefian 

 fide than on the oppofite Bohemian; Aflemanni Silefia, 335. 

 Such branches as run from N. E. to S. W. have their weftern 

 covered with primordial ftrata, and confequently lefs fteep ; 

 4. New Roz. p. 157. 



8. The.Meifiener in Heffia is fteeper on the N. and E. fides 

 which face the Warra, than on the fouth and weftern ; 1 . Bergm . 

 Journ. 1789, p. 272. 



9. The mountains of the Hartz and Habichtfwald are fteep 

 on the fouth and gentle on the northern fides, Fofter, § 46. 



10. The Pyrenees, which run from E. to W. are fteeper on 

 the fouthern or Spanifh fide ; Carbonieres, XIII. 



11. The mountains of C rim Tartary are gentle on the northern 

 and fteep on the fouthern fides, Fofter, ibid. 



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