384 Elements of Miner alogjf. 



IN EUROPE. 



Mont Blanc, highefl of the Alps 15672 Sir G. Shuckburgk 



Pbll.tr. 1777. 



Vefuviusin 1776 3938 Sauflure, 



jflEtna ... 10954 



Canigou, one of the Pyrenees 9214 

 St. Bartelemi in pays de Foix 7565 

 Mont d'Or in Auvergne - - 6696 

 PuydeDome ... 221 

 Hecla .... <;ooo Von Troil. 



The height of the Afiatic mountains has 

 never been accurately determined. Mr. Berg- 

 man remarks, that the fphericity of the earth 

 is no more altered by the height of the higheft 

 mountain, than that of a globe of 2 feet in 

 diameter, would be by an elevation of the fize 

 of a grain of fand. 



The line of congelation in fummer, under 

 the Equator, is at the height of 15400 feet; 

 at the entrance of the temperate zone, 13428 ; 

 on Tenenffe y in latitude 28, at about 1000; 

 in Auvergne, in latitude 45, at 6740 nearly; 

 with us, in latitude 52, it is probably at 5740. 

 The greateft height hitherto afcended, is 

 157^3 feet; in Peru 9 vegetation ceafes at the 

 height of 14697 feet, and on the Alps^ at 

 9585, Mr. SauJJure found the air lefs pure 

 at 3 834 feet 5 Mr. UArcct obferved, that on 



the 



