Highest Mountains of the U. States and N. America. 81 
striking manner the predominant slopes and elevations. Besides 
this, the marine currents, the lines of equal temperature, the 
zones of vegetation and other physical phenomena are indicated. 
it is easy to recognize what mountain chains, table lands, or 
that in such general maps as these, the essential, the predominant, 
the characteristic, should be given in clear, bold; lines; while 
Political divisions and the principal towns are also indicated on 
these maps, in a manner which does not obscure the physical 
features. The lettering is also well managed. Names are sufii- 
ciently frequent but are so printed as not to crowd the map, and 
ndeed so as not to be read at the distance of a few feet. By 
devices of this kind. a great deal of detail is introduced without 
are ready for publication. (New York: C. Scribner, 1863.) 
Pror. WHITNEY on THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS OF THE 
Uxtrep Srares ann or NortH America.—Prof. J. D. Whit- 
hey, Superintendent of the California Geological Survey, dis- 
Cusses briefly in the California Proceedings, ii, 219, the uestion 
“which is the highest mountain in the United States and which 
in North America?” His conclusion is that AM¢. Shasta, the 
height of which according to the barometrical measurements of 
the California Geological Survey, is 14,440 ft., probably overtops 
all other peaks within the limits of the United States, ‘Mt. Hood, 
spinetimes called the loftiest peak of the Cascade Range, is prob- 
ably not so high as Mts. Shasta, Rainier, or Adams, and by no 
™. Jour, 8c1.—Szconp Sertes, Vou. XXXVII, No. 109.—Jax., 1864. 
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