36 ON THE GENERAL DISPOSITION OF THE 



FEET. 



Sweden. Areskutan - 6,180 



Hanover. Brocken 3,690 



Bohemia. Ochsenkopf 3,980 



Switzerland. Mont Blanc 15,680 



Tyrol. Oertler Spitz 15,430 



Saltzburg. Ostelle - 12,800 



Hungary. Lomnitz ; Carpathians 8,640 



Spain. Pic Blanc. Pyrenees 10,205 



France. Canigou 9,290 



Italy. Etna 10,963 



Vesuvius 3,900 



Turkey. Lebanon 9,520 



Ararat - 9,500 



Greece. Olympus - 6,500 

 Ida 4,960 



Athos 3,353 



Thibet. Himalya 25,749 



Teneriffe. Pico" - 12,236 



Caucasus. Elbrouz - 16,700 



Mginwary - 14,400 



South America. Chimbora^o - 20,909 



Jamaica - 7,431 

 North America. Mount St. Elias 12,672 



North Pacific. Mouna Roa 12,700 



The arrangement, or distribution, of mountains, 

 whether as it relates to the general surface of the 

 earth or to particular tracts, has been a subject of 

 much discussion, and of dissertations not a little 

 tainted by error and prejudice. An imaginary regu- 

 larity of extended chains from S. W. to N. E. has not 

 only been stated with as much confidence as if it 

 really existed, but it has evon been asserted that all 

 the great chains of the earth preserved a general 



