MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND FIGURES. 



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stone, 82 feet high. Some idea of the enor- 

 mous proportions of the statue may be given 

 from the fact that the forefinger is 8 feet long 

 and 4 feet in circumference at the second joint. 

 The head is 14 feet high, and 40 persons can 

 stand in it. 



The Great Wall of China runs from a 

 point of the Gulf of Liantung, an arm of the 

 Gulf of Pechili, in Northeastern China, west- 

 erly to the Yellow river, thence makes a great 

 bend to the south for nearly one hundred miles, 

 and then runs to the northwest for several 

 hundred miles to the Desert of Gobi. Its 

 length is 1,500 miles. For the most of this 

 distance it runs through a mountainous coun- 

 try, keeping on the ridges, and winding over 

 many of the highest peaks. In some places it 

 is only a formidable rampart, but most of the 

 way it is composed of lofty walls of masonry 

 and concrete, or impacted lime and clay, from 

 twelve to sixteen feet in thickness, and from 

 fifteen to thirty or thirty-five feet in height. 

 The top of this wall is paved for hundreds of 

 miles, and crowned with crenelated battle- 

 ments and towers thirty to forty feet high. In 

 numerous places the wall climbs such steep 

 declivities that its top ascends from height to 

 height in flights of granite steps. An army 

 could march on the top of the wall for weeks 

 and even months, moving in some places ten 

 men abreast. 



Most Northern Point Beached by 

 Arctic Explorers. The following table 

 shows the furthest points of north latitude 

 reached by Arctic explorers up to and includ- 

 ing the Nansen expedition : 



Year. Explorers. North Latitude. 



1607. Hudson. 80d. 23m. OOs. 



1773. Phipps (Lord Musgrove). 80rt. 48m. OOs. 



1806. Scoresby. 81d. 12m. 42s. 



18'J7. Parry. 82d. 45m. 30s. 



1874. Meyer (on land). 82d. 09m. OOs. 



1875. Markham (Nare's expedition). 83d. 20m. 26s. 



1876. Payer. 83d. 07m. OOs. 

 1884. Lockwood (Greely's party). 83d. 24m. OOs. 

 1893-06. Nansen. 86d. 13m. 36s. 



The distance from the farthest point of polar 

 discovery to the pole itself is 3 deg. 46 min. 24 

 sec., or in round numbers, 260 miles, which is 

 only about thirty miles greater than the distance 

 from New York to Washington, by the line of 

 the Pennsylvania railroad, over which the 

 traveler rides in about five hours. But this 

 polar radius, though only 260 miles in extent, 

 is covered by ice gorges and precipices of 

 incredible difficulty ; and frost is so severe that 

 no instrument of human invention can meas- 

 ure its intensity, and it blisters the skin like 

 extreme heat. 



The greatest progress that has ever been 

 made across these wildernesses of storm, of fury 

 and desolation, was at the rate of five or six 

 miles in a day, the explorers often necessarily 



resting as many days as they had before trav- 

 eled miles in a single day, debarred by the 

 obstacles that they had encountered. 



The Highest Mountains. Feet - 



Mount Everest, India , 29,002 



Dapsang, Thibet 28,278 



Kuchin-Junga, India 28,156 



Sorata, Andes 26,380 



Aconcagua, Chile 22,422 



Illimam, Bolivia 21,780 



Chimborazo, Ecuador 21,420 



Arequipa, Peru 20,320 



Kilima-Njaro, East Africa 19,600 



Mt. Logan Canada 19,500 



Cotopaxi, Ecuador 18,880 



Elbruz, Russia 18,526 



Demavend, Persia 18,500 



Tolima, Columbia 18,069 



Kenia, East Africa 18,045 



Mt. St. Elias, Alaska 18,010 



Popocatepetl, Mexico 17,784 



Orizaba, Mexico 17,380 



Ararat, Turkey 17,260 



Mt. Brown, Canada 16,000 



Mt. Blanc, France 15,810 



Mt. Hooker, Canada 15,700 



Monte Rosa, Italy 15,208 



Mt. Whitney, California 14,898 



Mt. Ranier, Washington 14,444 



Mt. Shasta, California. . 14,440 



Long's Peak, Colorado 14,271 



Pike's Peak, Colorado 14,147 



Mauna Loa, Hawaii 13,600 



Fremont's Peak, Wyoming 13,576 



Mt. Wrangel, Alaska 12,066 



Teneriffe, Canaries 12,000 



Mt. Hood, Oregon 11,934 



Simplon, Alps 11,542 



Mt. Miltseen, Morocco 11,400 



Mt. Hermon, Palestine 11.000 



Mt. Lebanon, Syria 11000 



Olympus, Turkey 9,745 



Etna, Sicily 9,652 



St. Gothard, Alps 9,080 



Mt. Sinai, Turkey , 8,593 



Ymestield, Norway 8 543 



Roraima, Venezuela 7J874 



Mt. Kosciusko, Australia 7,175 



Peak of Pico, Azores 7,013 



Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina 6,711 



Mt. Washington, New Hampshire 6,288 



Itacolumi, Brazil 5 740 



Mt. Marcy, New York 5*467 



Mt. Katahdin, Maine 5 385 



Mt. Hecla, Iceland 5*000 



Ben Nevis . Scotland 4*368 



Vesuvius, Italy .'. a',948 



Height of Loftiest Volcanoes of the 

 World. 



Height 

 Name of Volcano. in feet. Where Located. 



Sahama 23,600 Peru 



Llullaillac 21,000 .'.'.'.'.' Chile'. 



Arequipa 20,500 Peru! 



Cayambi 19,813 Ecuador. 



Cotopaxi.. 19,500 Peru. 



Antisana 19,200 Ecuador. 



San Jose 18,150 Chile 



Mt. St. Elias 17,900 Alaska! 



Popocatepetl 17,884 Mexico 



Orizaba 17,370 Mexico! 



Altar 17,126 Ecuador. 



Sangai 17,120 Ecuador. 



Klintcheoskaia 16,512 Kamtschatka. 



Iztacihuatl 15,700 Mexico 



Toluco 15,500 Mexico. 



Shasta 14,400 . . United States. 



Fujiyama 14,000 Japan. 



Mauna Kea 13,953 Sandwich Islands. 



Mauna Loa .13,760 Sandwich Islands. 



Teneriffe 12,236 Canary Islands. 



Mt. St. Helen's 12,000 United States. 



Mt. Hood 11,225 United States. 



Peak of Tahiti 10,895 Friendly Islands. 



Mt. Etna..- 10,874 ....Sicily. 



