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Hope to the mountains of the Moon is nearer, he fays, to the 

 vveflern than to the eaflern feas ; of this however he muft have 

 been ignorant, as that trad of country is ftill Unknown. 



The mountains which run from Cape Comorin through the 

 peninfula of India are, he fays, much nearer to the fea on the 

 eaft than on the weft ; he probably meant the contrary, as the fa£t 

 is evidently fo, and fo he ftates it in the 2d vol. p. 295 ; the fame, 

 he tells us may be obferved in iflands and peninfulas, and in 

 mountains, 



This remarkable circumftance of mountains was not withftanding 

 fo little noticed that in 1792 the author of an excellent account 

 of the territory of Carlfbad in Bohemia tells us he had made an ob- 

 fervation, which he had never met with in any.phyfical defcription 

 of the earth, namely, that the fouthern declivity of all mountains 

 was much fteeper than the northern, which he proves by inftan- 

 ciiig the Erzgekirge of Saxony, the Pyrenees, the mountains of 

 Switzerland, Savoy, Carinthia, Tyrole, Moravia, the Carpathian 

 and Mount Hasmus jn Turkey, 2, Bergm. Jour. 1792, p. 385, in 

 the note. 



Herman in his Geology, publifhed in 1797, p. 90, has at leaft 

 partially mentioned this circumftance, for he fays that the eaftern 

 dechvities of all mountains are much gentler and more thickly 

 covered with fecondary ftrata, and to a greater height, than the 



weftern 



