[3]. Hughes, Physical Geography. 3d ed. p. 21.
[4]. Hughes, Physical Geog. p. 22.
[5]. Dr. Pye Smith.
[6]. As Chimborazo in South America, 21,414; Ararat, 16,000; Dhawalagiri, in the Himalayas, 28,000 feet above the level of the sea; compared with which what a mole-hill is Vesuvius, only 8,947 feet; or Blue Mountain Peak, 8,600, or even Mont Blanc, that monarch of mountains, which is 15,816 feet above the sea!
[7]. Hughes, p. 16.
[8]. Chambers’ Rudiments of Geology, p. 71.
[9]. These wells are so frequently spoken of as to need no explanation, further than to remind the reader that they are so called from having been first introduced in the province of Artois, the ancient Artesium in France.
[10]. The deepest Artesian well is the famous one in the Plaine de Grenelle, Paris. This well yields 516 gallons a minute; its temperature is 81° Fahr.; and its depth is nearly 1,800 feet.
[11]. How truly hieroglyphics—sacred carvings; (ieros, sacred, glupho, I carve;) and in this sense there is a holier meaning than Shakspeare could have dreamt of in his well-known lines, when applied by the geologist to his researches:—
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,