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found the Pieo of the iile of Teneriife * to be. The fummits of th 



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^ther mountains, m the interior parts of New-Zeeland, both in 

 ^Queen Charlotte's Sound and in Dulky Bay we found cdnftantly 

 covered a good way down with eternal fnow. 



We obferved thefe fnow capt heads all the way alon 

 failed from Dufl^y Bay to Queen Charlotte's Sound in May, in the 

 year 1773, 'and we took notice of the fame circumftance in the fame 

 year in October, on the other fide of the Southern ille, when contrary 

 ilorms brought us a good way along its South Eaft ihore, aimoft as 

 far as Banks's Illand. This I believe, fufHciently proves, that thefe 

 mountains form, as it were, one continued chain, running through- 



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out the whole Southern Ille, and that they are little inferior in height 

 to twelve or fourteen thoufand feet. This long feries of mountains, 



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running in the fame diredion, gives room for a probable conjedlure, 



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that the metallic veins, which in all likelihood are to be met with in 

 die mountains of New.Zeeland, are of a very rich and valuable nature. 



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* The Chevalier de Borda has m Auguft, 1776, meafured the height of the Peak of 



TenerifFe, and found it to be 193 1 French toiies 



12,340 Engllfh feet, and very near the 



fame quantity he obtahicd by trigonometrical meafuremcnt. Dr. Heberdcn's operations gave 

 ,15,396 Englifh feet as the height of the Peak of TenerifFe. P/mL Tranf. vol. xlvli. p. 356. 



The fame Dr. Hcberden remarks there, that the Sugar-loaf^ or la Perk 

 vfa league to the top^ and that it is co'vcred <withfnonx) the greatejl part ^of tl 



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Deduftin?^, 



therefore, 1980 feet = to one eighth part of a league, from 15,396 feet, the total for the 

 lieight of the Peiik according to Dr. Heberden, there remain 13,4^^ feet = 4472 yards, to 

 the'^line of fnow< Or, if thefe 1980 feet be dedufted from 12,340, or the height according 

 to the Chev. Borda, there remain 10,360 feet — ' < ^ ^ vards. as the Hue of 



fiS" and fomc odd minutes North latitude.. 



