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founded on them ; nor to procure barometrical meafurements tending 

 to confirm or to correct conclufions drawn from thofe grounds. But 

 having been fincc furnifhed with further observations taken by Lieu- 

 tenant Webb, in profecution of the fame inquiry, and having compared 

 them as well with thofe before made by him and by the late Lieute- 

 nant Colonel CoLEBRO0KE,~a* -with Lieutenant Colonel Crawford's 

 labours in the purfuit of the fame inquiry ; 1 confide r the evidence to 

 be now fufficicnt to authorize an unreferved declaration of the opinion, 

 that the Himalaya is the loftiefl range of Alpine mountains which has 

 hten yet noticed, its moil elevated peaks greatly exceeding the high- 

 eft of the Andes. 



This had been long fufpecled, or rather had been very generally 

 believed in India, upon lefs conclufive evidence than will now be Sub- 

 mitted to the public. It was remarked, that this chain of mo.untaioe 

 constantly covered with fnow is vifiblc from the plains of Bengal at 

 the di fiance of 150 miles* (it might have been faid at a Hill greater 

 <diftanee) This fact demonftratcs great elevation. For the peak of 

 Teyde or Teneriffe meafuring nearly 32,000 feet f is discernible in 

 clear weather at a diftance of 120 miles, and appears' like ' blue vapour 

 fcarcely darker than the iky; 'and C'himhor azo 3 the -highfeil -pe ak of the 

 Andes, afcertained to be more than 20,000 feet high,J' is feen at a 

 diftance of little more than 60 leagues, the reft of the" Cordillera of 

 the Andes being then concealed from view : but the Himalaya chain 

 of mountains is vifible in the horizon, .as a continued line extending 

 .through more than two points of the compafs, at a diftance equal to 



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