364 On the Physical Geography of the Alps. 
No. of the Table. Meters. Altitude, Paris feet. 
108. Grossglockner, First Peak,} ...........-. SOUG8! Coens 120884 
; . eoond Beak 2X 94 S406) eA 121582 
116. Summit of the Racher, 83650. acesae 103616 
117. Summit of the Wasserradkopf,.........- $1906, one nc 98 
III. Central Alps. The Oetz Valley Group. 
134. Vent, LSS 18 ice Sceugee 57914 
eee ey ce as we oe Ge 8 0 Li Ge: 2 + «saa 5504-2 
149. Similaun, 23. BOTRS ee 11135°4 
150. Wildspitze, Sh dae Serbeie chutes «pes eters $1320 Sa 114891 
151. Vernagt glacier, the lowest part of the,... 21000 ...... 6464'8 
IV. Pass between the Eisack and Oetz Valleys. 
170. - Jaufenhaus, 1969°9:2.044 2 60642 
177. Timbls, Sui BOVEY sms nde 7782°6 
VY. Southern Declivities. 
185. Sources of the Drau, ... 1SC8B < cacwsak 41978 
190. MiihIbach, ........... a) 5 Weer es 23182 
The above is accompanied by an appendix on the Grossglock-' 
ner Peaks. Some remarks upon, and a tabulated view of, the 
altitudes of twenty-eight of the most important of the Alpine 
pter. 
Chapter ix, pp. 198-221, by M. Adolph Schlagintweit, on the 
Formation of Valleys and the Form of the Mountain-chains of 
l 
a moderately elevated plateau, intersected by a few narrow val- 
leys, or whether, as in the case of the Alps, it forms a series 
narrrow, lofty, barren summits, between which expanded valleys 
pass in all directions. : 
Valleys have been sometimes regarded as almost exclusively 
the effect of vehement floods and torrents; but in later times 
clivity of the valley, and that all valleys have their origin 10 the 
serpentine windings of submarine currents; whilst by Pallas, 
Saussure, and Werner, diluvial floods, and erosion by streams 
and by atmospheric precipitations, were regarded as partial causes 
3 eee eo 
+ of = meed of reckoning used by the authors in en bee eso 
ample t of the Grossglockner) is given at page 166. notices of the UI0™ 
— e were origi comm 
abrbuch d. d. K. K. Geologischen Reichstanstalt, 1850, p. 125. 
