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4th Class. — The Harz, Erzgebirge, and the rest of the 

 smaller mountains in central Germany. 



If these mountains be classified according to their highest 

 summits we shall have — 



1** Class. — Mountains reaching nearly 15,786* feet, the 

 Alps. 



2nd Class. — Mountains from 10,760 to 11,733 feet, Serra 

 Nevada, the Pyrenees, and Etna. 



3rd Class— Mountains between 8,533 and 10,000 feet, 

 the Apennines, the mountains of Corsica, and probably 

 Balkan. 



4th Class.— Mountains between 6,400 and 8,533 feet, 

 Guadarama, the Scandinavian mountains, the Greek moun- 

 tains, the Dinaric Alps, the mountains of Sicily, (Etna how- 

 ever excepted,) and Iceland. 



5th Class. — Mountains between 4,270 and 6,400 feet, the 

 Cevennes, the mountains of Auvergne, and Sardinia, Jura, the 

 Sudetes, the mountains of Majorca, Crimea, Schwarzwald, 

 the mountains of Minorca, the Vosges, and the Scotch moun- 

 tains. 



6th Class. — Mountains below 4,270 feet, all the rest 

 whose height has been ascertained. 



This order would be somewhat changed, if the mean height 

 of the mountains was laid down as the standard, which does 

 not always correspond to the height of the summits. 



With regard to the direction of the larger elongated moun- 

 tain chains, we find — 



In East and West. — The Alps, Balkan, the Pyrenees, the 

 Spanish chains. 



In North and South. — The Scandinavian mountains, the 

 Cevennes, Vosges, Schwarzwald, the mountains of Sardinia 

 and Corsica. 



* The heights were given originally in Paris feet, we are responsible for their 

 reduction throughout this paper to English feet. — Editor Calcutta Journal 

 Natural History. 



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