C 578 ) 
A Table fhewing the Height of Mountains according to 
feveral antient and modern Writers. 
Strabo ( Lib. II. Geog .) fays, 
that the higheft Mountain, call- 
ed by him ‘Petra Sogdiana , is 
of . - 
Pzrerius (Lib. XII. in Ge- 
nejiri) determines the higheft 
Mountains to - 
Leo Bapt. Albertus (Architect. 
Lib . x. Cap. i.) to - 
Ath. Kir c her. ( Ars magn. luc. 
& umbr . P. II. Probl. 5.) 
brings them to - 
Fromond. {Lib. I. Meteor. Cap. < 
2. Art. i. - •! 
Gilbertus de magnet e. L. IV. C. i.. 
Pliny {Lib. III. Cap. lxiv.) ac- 
cording to the Explanation of 
Fortunius Licetus {de Luna }> 
Luce fubobfcura , Lib. II. p. 
306.) to w ; r 
Ficciolus^Geophr .{Lib. VI.) is of' 
Opinion, in Purfuance of what 
he imagines to have demon- 
ftrated of the Mountains A- 
thos and Caucafus , that pofli- 
bly there may be Mountains 
of * • v 
Stadia. 
Old Roman 
Vefpajtan 
Feet. 
Parts Feet. 
» 
30 
1875'© 
20468 
• 
3 * 
20000 
21831 
xzsoo 
23661 
43 
26875' 
*9 337 
• . - 
64 
J ( 
40000 
43664 
118 
80000 
87318 
- 
400 
< 
2 5*0000 
271900 
Six 
310000 
34931 * 
Now, 
