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there rife another called the Tit Usher?, covered with 
everlafting Snow, which we may, upon a moderate 
Computation, pronounce at leafl 1000 Foot higher 
nan the Top of the Jocb, and confequently one of 
the higheffc in the Country. 
j * e Avicul B by the Italians called Monte 
del Uccello, and by feme S. Bernhard's Mountain, 
from a Chappel built in Honour of that Saint, a high 
Mountain in Rhcetia, towards Italy, the Mercury was 
cording 3 °’ I7 ° 7 ’ ^ ^ " 1 1 '"’ which S‘ve ac- 
Mariotte - - 707° 5' or 4 i 47 < 
Dr. Scheuchzer - . 7*73 Is 6 c 
This Height mull be underftood only of that Part of 
the Mountain which is palled over by Travellers, the 
Mountain it felf riling conliderably above it, andthe^f- 
dula, or Aiatl'siAAas of Strabo, Geog. L. III. of which 
the Avtcula is only a Part, being ftill higher. The 
Rhenus Jojlerior, or Hinder Rhein, and the Mori Is 
which at laft lofes itfelf' into the Tejin, near Bellin’- 
zone, not much above the Entry of the Tejin into 
the Lake of Locarno, arife upon this Mountain. 
At Santa Maria, upon the Luckmannier Bert bv 
fome S. Barnaby s Mountain, which is likewife a 
branch of the Adula, the Mercury flood, Au? o 171c 
as upon the Avtcula, at zz" n» which ihews the 
Height of there two Places to be equal. 
In the Alp San Torta,ntw the Source of th eHinter 
Rhetn, Rhenus fojterior, five Hours and a half from 
Sfeluga, Sjlugen in Rhcetia, the Mercury was ob- 
ferved, July z 9 , i 7 o 7, at zi" J", where it I food like- 
wile upon the above-mentioned Mountain Joch whi- 
ther the Reader is referred for the Height of this Alp 
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