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higher ascent which might have taken place in New Guinea. Several 

 journals announced recently that the Englishman, Captain Lawson, 

 had discovered in this huge isle of the ocean a mountain called Mount 

 Hercules, which has an altitude of 10,929 meters above sea level, that 

 is, 1262 meters more than Mount Everest, in the Himalayan chain, 

 hitherto considered the highest point of the whole world. The 

 Explorateur has suggested that the welcome to this alleged discovery 

 should be given with certain reservations. At any rate, according to 

 his story, when Captain Lawson attempted the ascent of Mount 

 Hercules, he could ascend only to the height of 8435 meters, that is, 

 an altitude almost equal to that reached by the balloon Zenith in its 

 last and fatal ascension; but at this height, blood issued from his eyes 

 and ears, and he nearly died as a result of the rarefaction of the air. 

 This statement, like the discovery of a mountain claimed to be the 

 highest in the world and yet so late in recognition, requires confirm- 

 ation. (P. 65.) 



Nothing has confirmed this last account, which no one, unless 

 he is exceedingly credulous, could believe. But I will not continue; 

 the following chapter will contain the critical discussions. 



I Loc. cit., Chap IX— Sevilla, 1590. 



'Novum organum, Book II, 11. Translation by Lorquet, p. 85. 



3 Relation de divers phenomencs arrives dans le vuide, a dcs animaux qu on y avoit 

 cnferm.es. — Collect, acad., foreign part, vol. I, p. 46-61>. 



4 I do not know their exact date. Musschenbroeck lived from 1692 to 1761; the volume 

 of the Collection academiquc in which they are included appeared in 1755. 



5 Experience du Vuide— Histoire de I'Acad. dcs sciences de Paris, K6S; vol. I, p. 45.— 

 Collect, acad., French part, vol. I, p. '23. .„..,«. i -ir 



8 Boyle, R., Neiv Pncumatical experiments about Respiration. Plulos. Transact., vol. V, 

 p 2011-2058, 1670.— Extracted and translated: Collect, acad., foreign part, Vol. VI, p. 23-59; 1761. 



7 A new Experiment concerning an Effect of the varying Weight of the Atmosphere upon 

 some Bodies in the Water.— Philosoph. Transact., VII, 1672; p. 5156. 



8 Huyghens and Papin, Some Experiments touching Animals, made in the Air-pump.— 

 Philosoph. Transact., X, p. 542-543.— Extracted and translated, Collect, acad., foreign part, vol. 



9 To try the Effects of the Pncumatick Engine exhausted in Plants, Seeds, Eggs of Silk- 

 worms. Philosoph. Transact., vol. II, p. 424-425; 1667. . 



in Sur la rarefaction et la condensation de Fair.— Hist, de I'Acad. des sc. de Paris, year 

 1705, p. 15; and Collect, acad., French part, vol. II, p. 181. 



II Sur la mort des animaux dans le vuide, Acad, des sc. de Bologne.—Coll. acad., foreign 

 part, vol. X. p. 53; 1773. . . 



12 .S'»r la mort de quclques especes d'oiseaux et dc grenouilles dans un air, renferme. 

 Acad, des sc. de. Bologne.— Collect. ' acad., foreign part, vol. X, p. 313-321. 



13 Sur la cause de V extinction c la flamme et de la mort des animaux dans un air ferme. 

 Soc. roy. des sc. de Turin, vol. II, years 1760-1761; p. 168.— Collect, acad., foreign part, vol. XIII. 



14 Darwin. Experiments on Animal Fluids in the exhausted Receiver. — Philos. Trans., vol. 

 LXIV, p. 344-349, 1774. 



15 De Motu Animalium, Pars altera.— Rome. 1681. 



16 I could not procure this book. But probably this solution is the one which Veratti 

 quoted and which we have just mentioned. 



17 hoc. cit.: Relation abregee, etc.. 1744. 



^ Loc. cit.: Memoires philosophiques, 1787. 



19 Elementa Physiologiae corporis hutnani. Lausonne, 1761. 



20 De mcteoris aqueis, p. 40. I could not procure this work. 



21 Rechcrchcs sur les Modifications dc V atmosphere, vol. II — Geneva, 1772. 

 23 Loc. cit. : Nouvelle description, etc., 1785 



23 Discours en forme de dissertation sur I'etat actuel des montagnes des Pyrenees.— 

 Paris, 1776. 



** Voyage dons les Alpes— Geneva, 4 vol. in 4°; 1786 to 1796. 



25 Essai de Physiologic positive appliquee specialcmcnt a la medicine pratique, vol. I,— 

 Avignon, 1806. 



28 Art. Air, Diet, des Sc. medi., vol. I, p. 24S; Paris, 1812. 



27 Des effets de la pesanteur de Fair sur 1'homme considere dans I'etat de sante. — Theses dc 

 Paris: 1813. . 



28 Deuxicmc Memoir e sur la chaleur animal e ; 1813. Oeuvres de Legallois, avec dcs notes 

 de M. Pariset, vol. II— Paris. 1830. 



29 Description des Pyrenees, 2 vol.---Paris, 1813. 



30 Memoirc concernant les effets de la pression atmospherique sur le corps humam, et 

 ['application de la ventouse dans differents ordres de maladie— Paris, 1819. 



