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name of Trata (hideous), from its singular and dreary aspect. The 
following are the heights of the most remarkable peaks belonging to 
this mountain, as measured by Wahlenberg :— 
FORA ce erg ee ceo #0 ---e, 9034 Eng. ft. 
TOO AVIOWA sccicic sco acc ce ec eee 
INGHSLEMIUN cit sae ere so cicwue ce koe 
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he take HInzka ’... sc. 2 O21 
2 harper age tee ta set. BOle, (HAOure 
Gerlsdorfkessel ............ 7780 (about) 
Great Lomnitzerspitze ...... 8464 
Hundsdorferspitze .......... 8313 (about) 
Rotheseethurm ............ 7673 (about) 
Hintere Leithen .......... 6591 
SUPDDEEM.. a ays ok ssh area tere ET 
On the south side of the Waag there is a smaller alpine chain 
running nearly parallel to the great Tatra, the highest part of which, 
called Djumbier, is 6576 feet above the level of the sea. ; 
From the imperfect account which Wahlenberg gives of the 
structure of these mountains, it appears that the central and highest 
parts of them are primitive, consisting of a granite composed of 
quartz and milk-white felspar with very little mica. Ata lower 
level, transition rocks make their appearauce, consisting of greywacke 
and transition lime-stone. ‘The lime-stone is most abundant on the 
north side of the mountains, and seems to be nearly wanting on the 
south side. It appears probable that floetz rocks make their appear- 
ance in these mountains lying over the lower portion of the transi- 
tion rocks ; at least Wahlenberg speaks of a sand-stone slate, which 
he says is very different in its appearance from the greywacke which 
he had before noticed. 
The vegetation on the Carpathian mountains differs considerably 
from the vegetation on the northern Alps of Switzerland. The 
Austrian botanists ascribe the great number of plants which occur 
in their country to-the lime-stone rocks on which they vegetate ; 
but Wahlenberg does not think that the remark is just as far as 
applies to the Carpathian mountains. He found very few plants, 
indeed, confined to the chalk; and even these few, he thinks, owe 
their locality to some other circumstances. 
Corn and fruit-trees grow and flourish at a greater height on the 
outskirts of the Carpathian mountains than in Switzerland, 
The woody region, or the region of beeches, is richer in plants 
than the same region in the Alps of Switzerland. The termination 
of the beeches he places at the height of 4194 English feet above 
the level of the sea, ora very little lower than in Switzerland. 
The subalpine region, situated between the termination of the 
beech, and that of the pinus abies, or Scotch fir, exhibits nearly the 
same plants as in Switzerland; namely, acer pseudoplatanus, sam- 
