478 



Saint Elie, perhaps equals Cotopaxi in height; 

 the other, Fair Weather Mountain, equals 

 the height of Mount Rosa. The elevation of 

 the former exceeds all the summits of the Cor- 

 dilleras of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, 

 on the north of the parallel 191° ; it is even the 

 culminant point in the northern hemisphere, of 

 the whole known world north of 50° of latitude. 

 Towards the north-west of the peaks of Saint 

 Elie and Fair- Weather, the chain of California 

 widens considerably * in the interior of Russian 

 America. The volcanoes multiply in number 

 as we advance towards the west, in the penin- 

 sula of Alasca, and the Isles desRenards, where 

 the volcano Ajagedan rises to the height^ of 

 1175 toises above the level of the Ocean. It is 

 thus that the chain of the maritime Alps of 

 California, appears to be undermined by sub- 

 place Mount Saint Elie (lat. 60° 17' 35"), and not, like Lape- 

 rouse, at 1980 toises, but at 2793 toises j and Mount Fair- 

 Weather, Montana de Buentiempo, in lat. 59° 0' 42 V at 2304 

 toises. (See Relation del Viage al Estrecho de Fuca, 1802, 

 p. cxv and exc. The little care bestowed on the publica- 

 tion of the voyage of Laperouse having caused many errors, 

 which have been falsely attributed to that illustrious and un- 

 fortunate navigator (Krusenstern, Reise urn des Welt., Tom. ii, 

 p. 15), it would be important to verify the measure of Mount 

 Saint Elie on the manuscript of the journals brought back to 

 France. 



* See my Pol. Essay on New Spain, Vol. ii, p. 331. 

 + According to the measure of M. de Kotzebue. 



