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covered with snow, which it is during a great part of the year. It
is 12,200 feet high, and has been seen from the hills of Madeira,
250 miles distant, and from the level of the ocean at a distance of
125 miles. This peak in relation to its surroundings is second to
none on the globe. As Humboldt long ago said, rising as it does
directly from the level of the sea, it presents one of the most strik·
ing objects Natore hBB to offer us in any part of the world, and its
situation is heightened by its form, character, and the marvellous
grouping around its base and lower heights of all the climates and
vegetable products of bot.b hemispheres.