200 Miscellaneous Intelligence, 



waters. It appears evident that it cannot be attributed to any 

 vegetable powder. — Tableau des Observation, &c. May, 1820. — 

 Bib. Universelle. 



1 1 . Regions of perpetual Snow, — The following Table is from 

 the termination of a Memoire, by M. Alex, de Humboldt, on the 

 limit of perpetual snow in the Himalaya Mountains and the 

 equatorial regions. See Annales de Ckirn., XIV. p. 5. 



Parts of the world, where the Mountains rise above the Limit 

 of perpetual Snow: 



Equator. — Andes of Quito. (Africa?) 



10° of lat. —Sierra de Merida^ Sierra de Santa Marta, (Mont 

 AlKomri?) 



20° of lat. — Plain of Mexico, Mowna Roa of the Sandwich 

 Isles, High Peru (New Holland ?) 



30° of lat. — Himalaya, Atlas near Morocco, Etna ? Sierra 

 Nevada de Grenade, Cote de Caramania, Chili, 

 (New Holland?) 

 Heights of perpetual Snows measured. 



Andes of Quito (lat. 1°— 1° 30') 2,460 toises; Volcano of 

 Purace near Popayan (lat. 2° 18') 2,420 t. ; Tolima (lat. 4° 46') 

 2,380 t.(?) Nevados of Mexico (lat. 18° 59'— 19° 12') 2,350 t. 

 No perpetual snows on the peak of TenerifFe (lat. 28° 17') 

 1,908 t.; Himalaya, (lat. 30° 40'— 31° 4') southern side, 

 1,950 t.; northern side 2,605 t. (?) Sierra Nevada of Grenada, 

 the summit not the inferior limit (lat. 37° 10') 1,780 t. ; Etna 

 (lat. 37° 30') but only spots of snow 1,500 t.; the summit, 

 which also perhaps does not enter the curve of perpetual snow, 

 1,719 t.; Caucasus (lat. 42°— 43°) 1,650 t.; Pyrenees (lat» 

 42°,5—43°) 1,400 t.; Swiss Alpes (lat. 45-|°—46-i°) 1,370 t.; 

 Carpathian Mountains (49° 10') 1,330 t.; Norway (lat. 61°— 62°) 

 850 t.; (lat. 67°) 600 t.; (lat. 70°) 550 t.; (lat. 71-i°, but under 

 the influence of summer fogs, 366 t. 



The heights of the places printed in Italics have been mea- 

 sured. 



