196 Europe : — a popular Physical Sketch. 



Europe. It has also been already observed, that both 

 the Apennines and the Dinaric Alps are in connection with 

 the Alps, and they might therefore be taken in under the 

 same extensive Highland. The Pyrenees, on the contrary, 

 are separated from those, but communicate with the moun- 

 tains of the Spanish peninsula. 



Europe would thus consist of four principal parts : — 



1. — The large south-eastern Highland, including the Alps, 

 the central European mountains, the Apennines, the Dinaric 

 Alps, Balkan, and the Greek mountains. This is also the 

 loftiest. 



2. — A smaller north-ivestern Highland, consisting of the 

 Scandinavian mountains, and to which might be included also 

 the mountains of Great Britain. 



3. — A smaller south-western Highland, including the Pyre- 

 nees and the Spanish mountains. 



4. — A large plain between these three Highlands, the 

 Ural mountains, and the Atlantic Ocean. 



The mountains of Crimea are isolated from the others ; 

 they are of small extent, and belong perhaps to Caucasus ; 

 also Iceland and some smaller islands come not within this 

 division. 



If all these mountains be classified according to their ex- 

 tent, the following classes might be established : — 



1st Class. — The Scandinavian mountains, the Alps, Apen- 

 nines, Karpathians. 



2nd Class. — Balkan, the Dinaric Alps, the Greek and 

 Icelandic mountains, (if they be admitted,) the Pyrenees, the 

 Gallacian-Asturic mountains, Gaudarama, Serra Nevada, the 

 Cevennes, Jura, the Scotch mountains, Serra Guadaloupe, 

 Serra Morena, the Vosges, and the mountains of Sicily. 



3rd Class. — The mountains of England, Sardinia, Auver- 

 gne, Bohmerwald, the mountains of Corsica, Schwarzwald, 

 Rauhe Alps, the mountains of Crimea, Serra Monchique, the 

 Sudetes, the mountains of Ireland, and the Far-islands. 



