8 PICTURE OF ORGANIZED NATURE. 



13. The Rigi, in the same Canton, remains below 

 the snow-line ; its height being 5893 ft. 



14. Mount St. Gotthard, on the contrary, in 46 40' 

 N.L., extends far beyond the snow-line; its height 

 being 12,021. In Switzerland, the limit of snow lies 

 at an altitude of about 8300, and 8900 ft. 



15. TheJungfrau, in 46 25' N.L., is likewise much 

 elevated beyond the limit of the eternal snow. Its 

 height, according to Tralles, is 13,718 ft. 



16. The same holds good in Oertler- Spitze in Tyrol; 

 whose height is, according to Gebhard, 15,364 ft. 



17. The height of Mont Blanc, in. 45 41' N.L., is, 

 according to Saussure, 15,679 ft. The perpetual snow 

 begins, according to the same naturalist, on the north 

 side, in 8324 ft. altitude ; and on the south side, in 

 8953 ft. 



18. The Great St. Bernard, in 45<> 25' N.L., whose 

 highest summit lies 11,062 ft. above the level of the 

 sea, is covered on the summit with perpetual snow. 



19. The Puy de Dome near Clermont, in 45 25' 

 N.L., does not reach the snow-line. Its height, ac- 

 cording to Delambre, is 4853 ft. 



20. Mont Mezin in the Cevennes, (its height being, 

 according to Adanzon, only 6567,) does not reach the 

 snow-line. 



21. Mont d'Or in Auvergne, in 45 N.L., is yet 



