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reckoned among the moft wonderful and 
fuperb in-all Italy, had never been mea- 
fured, or at leaft the refult of its admea- 
furement never been made public; I took 
an opportunity during the fhort time of 
tranquillity we enjoyed before the com- 
mencement of hoftilities by the king of 
Naples, to obferve the height of the baro- 
meter at its fummit, and determine the 
height of the moft remarkable places on 
the fide, and at the foot of the mountain. 
The Abbé and Tribune Scarpellinz, one 
of the moft intelligent and zealous natura- 
lifts in Italy, and director of the Specola 
Caetani, was fo obliging as to make the 
correfpondent obfervations in Rome. I 
obtained the following refalts. 
Parifian feet 
above the le- 
wel uf the fea. 
Fontana Clementina, at the foot of 



the {maller Monte Albano = 271 
Villa Conti in Frafcati = 379 
Chapel on the fummit of this {mall 
pranch of tlie mountain _ 1131 
Fontana Farnefe in the large valley 
. Albano, between the above branch 
of the mountain and Moste Cavo 
itfelf = — IOIO 
Rocca di Papa, fummit of the rock, to 
which this fingular place is append- 
ed as it were by magic — 2230 
Monte Cavo, at the fummit, where 
there formerly ftood a temple of 
Jupiter ~— 2920 
' Convent of the Capuebins, on the fouth- 
_ ern and higher fide of Lago di Caffello 1516 
Level of the lake of Ca/tello or Albano, 
fuppofed to have been formerly the 
crater of a volcano 942 
Cafiello Gandolfo piazza 1249 
Marino piazza ——— ggo 
Fontana Colonna, at the foot.of the 
mountains, towards Rome — 519 
Tivoli, temple of Vefta a 595 
Madsnna del Monte Mario before the 
Porta Angelica at Rome = 390 
Villa TAellini, an eminence compofed 
of fand-ftone, the higheft and moft 
beautiful fpot before the gates of 
Rome ———— — 440 
The altitudes of all the paffes which 
Jead from Switzerland into Italy, are well 
known; but I do not recolleét to have 
any where feen indicated the height of the 
main pals through ‘Tyrol over the Brezner 
mountain into Italy. Should it really have 
never been meafured ; the refult of my ob- 
{ervations with the barometer from Mu- 
nich to Trent in May 1798, may perhaps 
be deemed interefting by naturaliits. For 
the correfpondent elevations I am indebt- 
ed to.the kindnefs of Father Schiegg in 
Salzburg, and of Father Zallinger in In- 
f{prucke 
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; co dagoe  Pae. feets 
Munich—elevation above the level 
of the fea 1622 
Hohenkirchen - ZU52 
Tegern lake, 20 feet above the Jake 2324 
Glafshoufe 2892 
The inn of Achen : 2886 
The lake of Achen, on the fummit of 
the fecondary calcareous mountains 2919 
Schwaz, 20 feet above the river Inn 1702, 
Infpruck eae Smee. IZIf 
Bergwirthfbaus (inn on the mountain) 
firft elevation of the primitive cen- 
tral chain of mountains _— 2460 
Schonberg — poit-houfe — 3267 
Matrey eee” 3298 
Steinach ——— 3389 
Griet -_ 37738 
Pond below the Brenner AISS 
Brenner —pott-houfe — 44872 
Gofes ——— 347% 
Sterzing — 30%7¢e 
Mittelwald ee — 2575 
Brixen ———— _—_ 1903 
ClaufJen —_—_ od 1767 
Kellmann —_—— 1616 
Arzwang —_——— ——. 1351 
Botzen, 80 feet above the river Eyfack sog4 
Auer sees 848 
Neumarkt 3x8 
Trent 71 

On comparing Walcher’s admeafure- 
ments of the glaciers of Tyrol with thole 
of the mountains of Switzerland, it ap-. 
pears that the former are not inferior in 
tis the more, then, . 
altitude to the latter. 
to be wondered at, that they have been 
able to make a road over the {mail height 
of 4481 feet. I know not of any pals of 
fmaller elevation over the Alps; for, ac- 
cording to Saujure, 




eet. 
The road over Mount Cenis rifes to an A 
elevation of 6360 
Little St. Berndrd — 6759 
Col de la Seigne — 7548 
Col Ferret 7146 
—— Great St. Bernard 6378 
———_— ———. Simpler we 6174 
Mont Cervin — 10,5cQ 
St. Gotthard — 6390 
The elevations of the pafs through Tyrol 
are calculated according to Shuckburgh’s 
medium height of the mercury in the ba- 
rometer at the furface of the fea, viz. 28 
inches, 2, 9 lines. It is certainly wrong 
to follow Bouguer’s determination for the 
fea. coafts of Peru, viz. 28 inches 5 lines. 
At many inland places the medium height 
of the mercury is greater in the barometer. 
The aftronomer Chiminello affares me, that 
at Padua, according to the numerous ob- 
fervations of Toaldo, it is 28” 1", 3; and 
at Venice exactly 28” 2”. And I, myfelf, 
in 
