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this amount rather exceeds the truth. — This altitude, added 

 to that of James' Peak as before stated, would give for the 

 height of that peak above the Ocean, eleven thousand five 

 hundred feet. Comparing this altitude with that of the " in- 

 ferior limit of perpetual snow," as estimated by M. D. Hum- 

 boldt, for the latitude of forty degrees, viz. nine thousand 

 eight hundred and forty-six feet above the Ocean, we find 

 the summit of the peak one thousand six hundred and fifty- 

 four feet higher than that elevation, and judging from ap- 

 pearances, this difference of altitude seemed sufficiently well 

 marked by the distance, to which the snow extended, from 

 the summit downward upon the sides of the Peak, to authen-. 

 ticate in a good degree, the calculation above stated. 



