( I j8 ) 
iie only tells him, that his Bookiiad convinced him, the Foffi! 
Shells, &c. were of Marine Origin ) which amounts to no more 
< than what I had publifh’d in the ‘Fhllofopbical ’TranfaBions two 
Years before that ElTay appear'd tho’ 1 fince humbly propos’d to 
Mr. Rafs Examination, the Hypothecs you find at the end of the 
Lithof hylacij Britannici Ichnographia \ which had not he and other 
Friends thought ufcful, on Account (whatever may be faid of it 
felf) of the Obfervations attending it, I ihould not have been in 
the leaf: fond of Pubiilliing. 
III. The MOUNTAINS he takes notice of, as moll remarka- 
ble for their Height, are about an hundred , the Height of a great 
many whereof he calculates by the Barometer^ as particularly 
that of the Broken Mountain or Mom PiUtm-, one of the Tops 
of Spelnga^ ^lAons above Bevio for Stahidum hivium~\ and di- 
2. !>, 9. vers others; tho’ according to his wonted Candour, he owns that 
Method liable to a great many Objedions. Some of the Helvetian 
Mountains, raofl: celebrated for Height, are TITLISBERG^ com- 
monly reputed the highell in all Swifferland, the height whereof he 
computes to be 358 Perches ; SPJTZMEJL^ an exceeding High 
Mountain in ^ BAMBERG or BANBERGy to the Top of 
' - which, call’d EGK and SVRENENECICy are five Hours almoft 
^ continual Afcent ; whereof above one Hour was thro’ Snow, tho’ 
in the Month of Augufi. Amonglt the Grifons he takes notice of 
Tcherler anf Ammon-y Tertfnerbergy Molferbergy Segnes Zuor 
Z out []i. e. ZJpper and Lower yJi Cefil’d by the Swifs Ftimferbercry 
St. Joannesbergy Heinz^enbergy BeverivSy BmtZy Calandy Calveijfen,' 
Den JuUerty Mortjlyen, Mamony Maloyay Monte di Sety &c. The 
The Names of thefe Hills are, as we may guefs by fome Notes of 
the Author, fo Ancient and Obfeure, for the moft part of them, 
as not to be Intelligible to the prefent Inhabitants. The Word 
^ BERGy which is the Termination of fo many of tlicm, and which 
might be added to all, is well known to Mountain j and we 
find A/p [^Plur. Alpen 2 to have been anciently another Appellative 
for any Mountain of extraordinary Height y whence Obhagalpy 
Hermfalpy Ochfenalpy Alplein- Firnalpeny Gerjieinalpeny Schwen-t 
alpeny &c. The latter of thefe two Words Servm tells us, is 
EpifioU ad D. Chriflophorum He?nmer Al, D. Hafnienfem. Ail, 
' Phil. Bond. zoo. 
Celticy 
