192 THE CHEMISTRY OF CREATION. 



snow-covered mountain in Eastern Africa. This 

 discovery is mentioned in the following extract 

 from his journal:* "The mountains of Jagga 

 gradually rose more distinctly to our sight. At 

 about ten o'clock I observed something remark- 

 ably white on the top of a high mountain, and 

 first supposed that it was a very white cloud, in 

 which supposition my guide also confirmed me ; 

 but having gone a few paces further, I could no 

 longer rest satisfied with that explanation ; and 

 while I was asking my guide a second time 

 whether that white thing was indeed a cloud, and 

 scarcely listening to his answer that yonder was 

 not a cloud, but what that white cloud was he 

 did not know, but supposed it was coldness, the 



* The cut exhibits the variations with great accuracy. In 

 its composition, the great and admirable work, Johnson's 

 Physical Atlas, has been followed. 



BBFEBKNCE TO CfT OPPOSITE. 



1. Erebus. | 20. Etna. 



2. Sarmiento, Tierra del Fuego. 21. Pyrenees. 



3. Nose Peak, Tierra del Fuego. 



22. Ben Nevis. 



4. Mount Stokes, Patagonia. | 23. Mageroe. 



5. Yanteles, Andes of Chile. 24. Sulitelma, interior of Norway. 



6. Osorno, Andes of Chile. 25. Osterjokul. 



7. Egmont, New Zealand. 26. Interior of Norway. 

 8. Vol de Peuquenes, Chile. 27. Northern Ural. 



9. Gualatieri, Western Cordillera, j 28. Kamtschatka. 



10. No. de Sorata. i 29. Oonalashka. 



11. E. Cordillera. 30. Altai. 



12. Chimborazo, Quito. | 31. Mont Blanc. 



13. Cotopaxi. 32. Elbrouz, Caucasus. 

 14 Purace. j 33. Kasbek, Caucasus. 

 15. Tolima. ; 34. Ararat. 



16. Sierra Nevada de Marida. 



35. Bolor. 



17. Abba Jaret, Abyssinia. j 3$. Hindoo Koosh. 



18. Popocatepetl. j 37. Dhawalagiri, Himalaya. 



19. Sierra Nevada. 



