378 Geographical Notices. 
Harvard College, Dr. Francis Boott, late of London, and Lem- 
uel Shaw, late Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Mass., then 
all young men. The observations were reduced by Prof, Far- 
rar, of Harvard College. An account by Dr. Bigelow of this 
visit, is in the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 
Oct. 1816 
4, 6,296, (or by a series of observations, 6,228,) the height 
determined by Dr. Chas. T. Jackson, State Geologist, and Messrs. 
J. D. Whitney, M. B. Williams and Eben Baker, assistants, by 
barometric and thermometric observations, for a period of 12 
ours. See “First Report on Geol. of New Hampshire,” 1841, 
an 
6,238, from barometric observations of Capt. Partridge, in 
1891, still retained by some of the Common School Atlases. 
6,2 285, obtained by Prof. Bond, of Cambridge Observatory, 
with barometer and theodolite. The same result obtained by 
BA, - E. , by spirit level. This measurement was 
adopted by Shi n’s New Amer. Cyclopedia, N. Y., 1863. 
7. 6,280, from the levelling of Capt. T. J. Cram, Top. Eng,, 
Assist. U. S. Coast Survey, published in Coast Survey Report 
for 1854. Simultaneous observations, by the barometer, gave 
6,206, and by thermo-barometer, boiling point, 6,116. 
6,288, Prof. Guyot’s final measurement, by barometer, of 
which a full account is given in this Journal, II, xxxi, 156, 
March, 1861. 
9. 6, 290, was a former result obtained by the same, Aug, 
ee, 6,293, U.S. Coast Survey, in 1858, (so stated by Prot. 
uyot, 
11. 6 »428, the result of seven days’ capac nae with a er 
level, Aug. 1820, conducted by Messrs. A. N. Brockett and 
. Weeks, of Lancaster, N. H., and d aanibed in Farmer 
Moore's “ N. H. Hist, Collections,” Apl., 1823, (ii, pad is 
measurement is followed in Lip] incott’s Gazettee U. S45 
oo Atlas, Edinburgh, 1856, the sintle9 
er 3, Glasgow, 18 
| 2. 6,652 is s He mabuldte statement (Views of Nature), pe) 
porting follow — Lyell’s “Second _ to U.S.” (1849, 
owever, Dr. Bigelow’s measuremen Géo- 
18, 6,817 (2, 078 meters), according to Guibert’s Diet. 
— et Statistique, Paris, 1855. 949. 
and over, McCulloch's Geogr. Dict., edition of ere 
15 7085 an 7,162. In July, 1804, Rev. Manasseh Cutler, 
D., of Ipswich, Mass., with Dr. W. D. Peck, afterward Prot 
“at Cambridge, mee several barometric observ? 
Ate a gies, Teduced by Dr. Bowditch (in Mem. Amer. Actd: 
— Sci., for 1815, vol. iii, pt. 2, p. 326), gave eerste 
