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grow as truly as animals or vegetables. I just mentiori 

 their use for the production, shelter, and nourishment of 

 so ne sorts of vegetables and animals, which could not 

 grow or live so \veil any where else. But from the 

 \vhole we may see of what advantage these unsightly 

 moles (as some thought them) are to the accommoda- 

 tions, and even necessities of life. 



6. The height of Snowden-TI ill, generally supposed to 

 be the highest in Great Britain, is 1240 yp.rds. But 

 Skiddow-Hill, in Cumberland, is I'/Oo yards high from 

 the level of the lake beneath. And .Conagra, which 

 rises gradually from the head of the Bay at St. Kilda, 

 one of the western islands of Scotland, is 1 800 yards 

 high ; so that this may justly be stiled the Ten e riff of 

 Great Britain. The height of several mountains in 

 France is as follows : 



Feet. 



Bugarach in Langucdoc 38S8 



Le Pay de domine\ 4860 



Le Courland / 508& 



Le Coote > in Auvergne 5 \ 06 



Le Caiital i 5Q04 



Le Mont d'or 6J80 



Le Mont Ventoux in Avignon 0216 



The height of the Pyrenean Mountain is, 

 St. Bartheiemi 7 HO 



Le Moiitagne des Mausset 

 Le Conigoe . 864O 



Probably these mountains may vie in height with 

 most in the known world. Yet above all these is the 

 Stella Piz Hail, a steep mountain in the Orisons, which 

 is 9585 Paris feet above the level of the sea ; a height 

 which the wild goats themselves scarce venture to 

 ascend. 



But Mr. Martel informs us, that the highest point of 

 Mont-Blanc is higher even than this ; that it is 2076 

 toises above the level of the Rhone, which, added to the 

 height of this above the sea, makes 131 15 Paris feet, or 

 above two English miles, and two thirds of a mile. If 



