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Hypsometrical Table of Volcanoes. 



First group of volcanoes, from 700 to 4000 French 

 feet (from 746 to 4263 English feet) * : 



The volcano of the Japanese island Kosima, south 

 of Jezo : 746 feet, according to Horner. 



The volcano of the Lipari Island, named "Vol- 

 cano : " 1304 feet, according to Fr. Hoffmann. ( 342 ) 



Gunung Api (signifying, in the Malay language, 

 fire-mountain), the volcano of the island of Banda : 

 1948 feet 



The volcano of Izalco ( 343 ), in a state of almost 

 constant eruption; first ascended in 1770; in the 

 State of San Salvador, in Central America: 2132 

 feet, according to Squier. 



Grunung Ringgit, the lowest volcano in Java : 2345 

 feet, according to Junghuhn. ( 344 ) 



Stromboli: 2957 feet, according to Fr. Hoffmann. 



Vesuvius, the Eocca del Palo, on the highest 

 northern margin of the crater : the mean of my two 

 barometric measurements ( 346 ), in 1805 and 1822, 

 gives 3997 feet. 



The volcano of Jorullo, which broke forth, in a 

 high Mexican plain ( 346 ), on the 29th Sept. 1759: 

 4265 feet. 



* It would have been easy, and might have appeared more simple, to 

 have made the divisions.of this table at 4,000, 8,000, 12.000, and 16,000 

 English feet ; but this would have introduced confusion in the subse- 

 quent reasoning, for example, by throwing Etna and the Peak of 

 Teneriffe into different groups. 



