594 <SVr george shuckburgh’s Obfervations 
Table of heights, 8cc. continued. 
Above the 
River Tyber. 
Feet. 
The Level of the river Tyber, — — . 
The top of the Janiculum, near the Villa Spada, — 260 
AventineHill, near the Priory of Malta, — 117 
In the Forum, near the arch of severus, where thel 
ground is raifed 23! feet, — — j 34 
Palatine Hill, on the floor of the Imperial palace — - 133 
Celian Hill, near the claudia n aqueduff, — 125 
Bottom of the canal of the claudian aquedufl, — 175 
Efquiline Hill, on the floor of St. M. Major’s church, 154 
Capitol Hill, on the Weft- end of the Tarpeian rock, 118 
In the S trad a deiSpecchi, in the convent of St. Clare, 27 
On the union of the Viminal and Quirinal Hills, in the 1 
Carthuflan’s church, diocles. Baths, — J I ^ 1 
Pincian Hill, in the garden of the Villa Medici, — 165- 
Top of the crofsof St. Peter’s church, — 502 
The bafe of the obelifk, in the center of the Periftyle, 31 
The fummit of the mountain Sora&e, lying about 20§ 1 
geog. miles N. of Rome, g — — J 
The fummit of Monte Velino, one of the Appenines, \ 
covered with fnow in June, about 46 geog. miles f 
N.W. of Rome, and which is probably the higheft f 
of the Appenines, g — — — J 
Above the 
Mediterranean! 
Feet. 
33 
*4 or — the 
Lake of Geneve* 
Naples, Cafa Ifolata on the Chiaia, 27 § feet above! 
the fea,, 5 — — — J 
Mount Vefuvius, mouth of the Crater from whence 1 
the Are iffyed in 1776, — — 1 
11 97 
2271 
s sa7 
3938 w 
Table 
(k) Sir william Hamilton informed me, that the height of Vefuvius, as- 
taken by Mr. de saussure of Geneva in 1772, with only a barometer of Mr. 
j>E luc’s conft'rudtion, and according to his rules, was 3659 J French feet z: 
3900 Engliih, which agrees pretty well with mine. But the Padre della 
iroRRE pretends to have found the height of Vefuvius in 1752 (fee p. 44. of 
his- 
