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the New World, if we form a judgment from the 

 time which Tournefort^ and other travellers, took 

 to perform the diftance from the bafis of that 

 mountain, up to the commencement of the fnow 

 which covers it's fummit, and, which is lefs arbi- 

 trary, from the diftance at which it may be feen, 

 and that is, at leaft, fix days journey of a caravan. 



The Peak of TenerifF is vifible forty leagues off. 

 The mountains of Norway called Felices, and, by 

 fome, the Alps of the North, are vifible at fea 

 fifty leagues diftantj and, if we may believe an 

 ingenious Swedilh Geographer, are three thoufand 

 fathoms high. 



The peaks of Spitzberghen, of New-Zealand, 

 of the Alps, of the Pyrennées, of Switzerland, and 

 thofe on which ice is found, all the year round, 

 are exceedingly elevated ; though moft of them 

 very remote from the Equator. They do not even 

 run in diredtions parallel to that circle, as muft 

 have been the cafe, on the fuppofition of the ef- 

 feâ: produced by the rotation of the Globe ; for if 

 the chain of Taurus, in the ancient Continent, runs 

 from Weft to Eaft, that of the Andes, in the new, 

 runs from North to South. Other chains proceed 

 in other diredions. 



But 



