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itMO])lTSERRArr;AN ALLUYIAL CONFORMATION. 63This ls, therefore, 'a subject open to discussion, (so far aspermitted to the traveller, for, characteristically, it is onlygraI1t~d him to catch knowledge as dogs do the Nile water,) and notoneofthose wbeteon prudent persons tell us the public has alreadymade up itSfniind,'aI).id; 1.8;not ta bedisturbed by the suggestion of newtheaflês. '.IihisseetnSàn::tIFuviâl, thoùgh not a marine conformation.$!~iUifO\ves its origin toNeptunian force.Though the waters \vertrthe parent and nurse of Nature, yet, when oppresséd by them, a burthen$0 new, at the Deluge, wnat but convulsions should ensue? As to man,not reach these countries until fifteen centuries after the tran5-­ofSbHlar.The mountainseems to have been origi.;,adm,its of being. The fotegoing calcutheeye and pace, are not telld"ered orexpectêd as close meaÎ3"Uring.ln such cases approximations are admis.;,sible, as in more minute ones they are unavoidable*.wây to precision; a point ever ta be sought after.They pave theA model of thisni~untain could easily he taken, and it would supply infinitely the mostçO'nipetentiâea of it.This is probably the instance on the face of the~p.roximatÎ()tts. H; The circumference orthe mountain is four leagues, its height a leagueafîtlatI~al~;!9t~câ.~r~ingto; so.me,two leagues! !."'-Epitome Historieo de M071t.errat, which, is. tOI .b~bollghta,t/~Il:~~~~~~~;/ThUs mU.eh f OT its approximations! Resentos 5ays its height is onetiiotlSandthree~~i~~~~~~ndtwenty-six varas. A caleulation hardly within the bounds of reason •.Avarais the$~,a,QtS'h/measureof three feet.Thus Cpstard, in Love's Labour Lost, says, "It isvar~Ji~~~ Sir,fore~c~o~el'resents three." ,La Hor.de's estimate, for he does not appear to have.measured it,is three th(JUsand (French of'course) feet.III the steepestâcee~siblemountainsa thousand feet of elevation maybe allowed to every haI/­houtofascent.--- Hutdistalleesalld Aimensions are computed under very great disadvantag"e here,fOl' whoever saW perpendieular objec.ts in conqexion upo+n this seale? and how unusual j" evenfor>tlieeye, âccustomed to view mountains, to he put to one which has no relative objeet to sealeby! lt isvery conveniently cii'cumstanced fol' a barometl'ical measurement, and a common seabatometercould serve theturn. Where instruments of this kind have a considerable lan,d..carriaœetoundergo,little good reault is to be hoped from them.