Vi ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PACING 

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11. — Panorama of the Jungfrau Range (Eiger, Monch, 



jungfrau) 33 



(From a photograph presented by Professor Weinek.) 



12. — Mt. Chachani (20,000 feet) from the Arequipa Obser- 

 vatory (from a photograph by W. H. Pickering) . 35 



(From Appalachia, vol. vii, plate xix. By permission of the 

 Appalachian Mountain Club.) 



13. — El Misti (19,200 feet), from the Arequipa Obser- 

 vatory (from a photograph by W. H. Pickering) . 37 



(From Appalachia, vol. vii, plate xx. By permission of the 

 Appalachian Mountain Club.) 



14. — Illampu (the highest of the Andes) and the Sorata 

 Range, Seen over Lake Titicaca (from a photograph 

 BY W. H. Pickering) 39 



(From Appalachia, vol. vii, plate xxi. By permission of the 

 Appalachian Mountain Club.) 



15. — Chimborazo (20,545 feet) 41 



(From Whymper's Andes, page 24. By permission of Charles ; 



'Scribner's Sons.) 



16. — Chimborazo from a Point 17,450 Feet above Sea . 43 



(From Whymper's Andes, page 64. By permission of Charles 

 Scribner's Sons.) 



17. — Distant View of Pike's Peak (14,134 feet), (from a 



PHOTOGRAPH BY GENERAL WiLLIAM J. PaLMER) . . 44 



18. — Mount Whitney (14,900 feet) from the West (from a 



PHOTOGRAPH BY J. N. LeCoNTE) 57 



(From the Bulletin of the Sierra Club, vol. i, plate xiv. The cut 

 is printed here by the courtesy of the Sierra Club of California.) 



19. — Mountain Camp, Mt. Whitney, California . . .59 



(From a sketch by T. Moran, forming the frontispiece to Dr. 

 Langley's Researches on Solar Heat.) 



20. — YiEW OP THE Railway to the Summit of Pike's Peak 61 



21.— Ibid. 62 



22.— Ibid. 63 



2'S.—Ibid. 64 



(The four figures just named are printed here by the courtesy of 

 the Editor of the Scientific American.) 



24. — View of the Lowe Observatory on Echo Moun- 

 tain (3500 feet) (presented by Professor Lewis 

 Swift) 65 



