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east, which fell in some years ago during an 

 eruption, still appears, with its truncated summit, 

 to be the highest. The next following, a sharp- 

 pointed cone, is evidently considerably liigher than 

 the peak of Oonemak, and this, which seems to 

 exceed the mountain Mackuschkin, in Oonalashka, 

 and the similar summits of the nearest island, is 

 1175 toises high, according to the measurement of 

 M . Von Kotzebue. The snow entirely covers the 

 cone, and its basis, after a rough estimate, on the 

 two upper thirds of its height, and descends down 

 still farther to the shore in many places. 



The sight of this mountain leaves an extraor- 

 dinary impression behind. The eye which has 

 accustomed itselfj in our Alps, to use the line of 

 snow as a rough approximation, can with diffi- 

 culty, withstand the deception of over-rating the 

 heights of these summits. * The line of snow which 

 Wahlenberg has observed in the Swiss Alps, at 

 1371 toises, and in the Lapland mountains, at 555 

 toises, and Leopold Von Buch, at Mageroe, 71** 

 north latitude, at 333 toises, might, according to our 

 rough estimate, descend over these islands to about 

 400 or 300 toises j and separated summits, which 

 do not attain this height, are covered with snow on 

 their tops, and in clefls and openings of their 



• From the same cause there was an opposite effect in Tene- 

 rifFe. The peak, which was scarcely touched by the snow 

 when we saw it, did not make the impression on us which its 

 great height gave us reason to expect. 



