1800. ] 
the Jews, more women than men renounce 
the faith of their anceftors. ‘They are in- 
duced to embrace the dominant religion of 
the country, either for the purpofe of 
being revenged of their relations, or of 
efcaping fome punifhment, or from mo- 
tives of ambition or intereft. If fucha 
renegado be endowed with fuperior talents, 
and. poffefs knowledge, addrefs, and cour- 
age, and lrave the good fortune to render 
his fervices ufeful to the government; he 
is efteeméd equal to the Coloris, and may 
be raifed to honourable and lucrative of- 
fices. Thus, for inttance, the prefent 
admiral of the Algerine fleet is a renegado, 
who was formerly a Jew. Renegadoes 
who were Chriftians, are lefs numerous. 
Formerly they were eager to gain profe- 
lytes from Chriftianity: but at prefent 
fuch converfions are very rarely encour- 
aged, nay, in moft inftances, noteven per- 
mitted, as the proprietors of the flaves 
would be lofers, and be deprived of the 
expected ranfom. On the-whole, in this 
country too they are of opinion, that it is 
beft for every one to adhere to the religion 
in which he was educated. ‘They even 
defpife and diftruft renegadoes: and 
that not without reafon, for the greater 
part of them are in their hearts attached 
to neither one religion nor the other. 
Heights of Mountains 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
HEIGHTS of MOUNTAINS 72 
and GERMANY.- 
ae p- 894, of our laft volume, we gave 
a ftatement of the height of Mozte 
Cava near Rome, and of the pafles leading 
from Switzerland into Italy: to thele we 
are now enabled to add the following : 
In ** Fragments on Italy, from the 
Journal of a young German, 1798.— 
The height of the Gran Saffo d’lialia, be= 
twixt Aguila and Teramo, is ftated to be 
$255; of Monte Velino, 7818; and of 
Monte Sila, in Calabria, 4634 Parifian 
feet above the level of the fea. Monte Ra- 
ticofa, at Pietra Mala, the higheft point of 
the main road from Bologna to Florence, 
has an altitude of 2901; and the Radi- 
cofani, the higheft point of the road from 
Florence to Rome, 2470 feet. Thefe 
mountains are all fituated in the Apenuine 
ridge. In the Alps, according to the 
fame author, the height of the pafs over 
the Col de Balme, 70863 of Montanvert, 
57243 of the pafs over the Cenis, 6261 5 
of the higheft point of the road over the 
St. Bernard, 75303; over the Cemmi, 
Ai gover the Grimfel, 6570 Parifian 
eet, ah ay 
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in Italy and. Germany. 539 
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In Fr. Mich. Vierthaler’s Travels through 
Salzburg, we find the following heights, 
above the level of the fea, of mountains in 
that archbifhopric. , 
The fmall caftle St. Franz, on the fum- 
mit of the Imberg, 2122 Parifian feet. 
The Geifoerg, 4012, according to Von 
Buch ; 
boldt. 
The Unterfberg, on the fide towards 
Salzburg, 5516 feet, according to Von 
3890, according to Von Hum- 
Humboldtand Schiegg; on'the fide towards _ 
Berchtefeaden at leaft 6000. 
The high Gol, 5800. i 
The weltern point of the Tannengebirg, 
at the pafs Lueg, 6644, according to 
Humboldt and Schiege. 
The Schiller-Hohe between the Hinter- 
Alpe and Bundichuh, 6736, according to 
Von Moll. | 
Windsfeld, 6879, according to Von 
Moll. 
The Hobe Tiron, in the Tannengebirg, 
7245, according to Felner. 
The Horzs on both fides of the Winds- 
feld, 8052, according to Von Moll. 
Higheft pits on the Goldberg, in Rautris, 
$233, according to Von Moll. 
Rathbausberg, $300. 
Wazmann, 9058, according to Beck. 
The Herzog Ernfi, or the Grofe Kogel, 
in Rauris, gros. 
The Hobe Nan, or the Hachhoru, 10633, 
according to Hacquet. 
The Soxmenblick is faid to rife to an 
equal height with the laft-mentioned 
mountain: and the <Axnkogel, the Wi/- 
bacher Horn, and the Lofler in the Sital- 
lupe to be fill higher. It appears, then, 
from the above lift, that the mountains of 
Salzbure may be reckoned among the 
higheft in the old World. Not even in 
the Carpathian and Pyrenean ridges are 
there any higher: only by fome of the 
Alps are they furpaffed in altitude. 
In Tyror the higheft mountains are, 
The Playley-Kogel, 9748 Parifian feet, 
according to Walcher. 
The Glockner, 11500. 
The Oriele, 12000. Hacquet eftimates 
the height of this laft to be equal to that 
of Mont Blanc; which, however, may 
be juitly doubted. 
Heights of BOHEMIAN, CARINTHIAN, 
and other mountains : 
. Lerglau, the higheft mountain among 
the Julian Alps, 9294 feet. | 
The Great and Little Sturmbaube, 4.710 
feet. . . 
Mont-Balon, the higheft mountain of 
the Vogefen, 4236 feet. 
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