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Il, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. 
. Altitudes in British America.—The following altitudes and local- 
it : Fone passes and stations in the Rocky Mountains in British 
mpiled from the reports and maps of Capt. Palliser’s ex- 
plorations, pablished by Parliament, 1859-65, and are given here for 
convenient reference. Some of the locations are taken from the observa- 
the more correct. 
The altitudes are deduced from barometrical observations (aneroid), 
and the temperatures of boiling water. 
Latitude, itude, | Altitude above 
North. een. fea. 
é feet. 
49 10 114 55 6,030 
9 20 114 58 6,300 
50 40 15 25 5,700 
51 12 16 10 4,903 
51 24 17 25 5,210 
51 40 17 6,347 
51 40 16 30 7,200 
1 45 17 20 
50 07 16 5 3,090 
48 56 | 11 2,300 
48 38 118 3 1,05 
51 47 117 13,500 
51 45 117 36 13,400 
50 52 | 117 50 7,858 
52 50 118 40 
52 28 118 25 
§2 17 118 12 
51 35 117 10 
51 20 116 45 
50 52 116 27 
) 24 116 
2 52 106 16 1,321 
3 31 113 16 2,088 
Si 9 115 4 3,963 
52 40 115 10 3,195 
53 12 118 10 
ine Pass” is given here as located on the map; in the ear- 
oa it is stated as long. 117° 20’ W., and alt. 5210 ft. (Rep. 1859, 
(v (vat = Mt. Murchison, the heights named here are along the crest 
) of the Rocky Mountains; = the names of other peaks were sd 
