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Panda is allowed to be the higheft of all that 
Ridge of Mountains called JVerkoturian. Our Au- 
thor endeavoured to take the Height of it by means 
of the Barometer. 
On the nth of ‘December 1742, at our Authors 
Lodgings at the Foot of Panda, the Mercury in the 
Barometer, in a cold Place, but within-doors, flood 
at 2 6~r o Paris Meafure. He then carried it up the 
Mountain as high as he could go, which was about 
one Third of the whole Height, where he hung up 
the Barometer on a Tree, from 9 to 1 1 in the 
Forenoon, making a good Fire pretty near it, left 
the intenfe Cold, which funk the Quickfilver in 
*T)e Lijles Thermometer to 201, fhould affed the 
Barometer, and lead him to aferibe that to Gravity, 
which was only owing to the Contra&ion of Cold. 
Under thefe Circumftances the Quickfilver funk 
to 2 5rii- 
Hence, according to M. CaJJinis Calculation, 
our Author firft Station will be 941 Feet higher 
than the Level of the Sea: The fecond on ‘Pan- 
da 1505 f. and the whole Height of this Moun- 
tain 45’if, or 752 Paris Toifes ; which, added 
to 941 Feet, the Height' of his Lodgings at the 
Foot of: Panda, makes 5456 Feet, or 909 Toifes, 
the Height of Pandas Top above the Sea; luppofing 
the Level of the Sea to be 2 S Inches, as the Paris 
Academicians have fixed it: Tho' this differs from 
Obfervations made on the Barometer at the Sea- 
coaft of Kamfchatka at Bolcheretz ; where, from 
Experiments made for above two Years, the mean 
Height of the Mercury was 27 Inches, 62. Lines. 
And at Ochotz , during a Year's Obfervations, the 
mean 
