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Show authorities, hnvc tion in W\.rk which h:l> oht in >d cx:t nsiYo circulation. ours of the h t f, w m nth the hyp ometricnl ompuri ·on of the culminating ~ummit of th two ontinent hn ulmo t unexpectedly reeei>ed important correetion and addition , of which I hasten to >nil myself. (~ee page 63-6-!, and - 9.) The determinations of the height of two mountain in the en tern chuin of the Andes of Boli>ia, the orata and the Dlimani, have been freed from the errors which had placed tho e mountains above the Chimborazo, but without a yet altogether restoring to the latter 'vith certainty it ancient pre-eminence among the snowy summits of the New World. In the Himalaya, the recently executed trigonometricn.l measurement of the Kinchinjinga (2 ,178 English feet) places it next in altitude to the Dhawalagiri, a new and more exact trigonametrical measurement of which has also been recently made. For the sake of uniformity with the two previous editions of the "A.nsichten der Natnr," I have given the degrees of temperature in the present work (unless where expressly stated otherwise) in degree of Reanmur's scale. The linear measures are the old French, in which the toise equals six Parisian feet. The miles are geographical, fifteen to a degree of the Equator. The longitudes are reckoned from the Observatory at Paris as a first meridian. BERLI~, 1849. |
