America.
| Andes, South | Chimborazo, Quito | 36 | 20,900 |
| America. | Cotopaxi, Quito | 37 | 18,880 |
Height of Remarkable Lakes, Cities, &c.
| Alps | Lake of Lausanne | 38 | 8640 |
| Lake of Lanzon, on the mountain of Olan | 39 | 6797 | |
| Switzerland | Lake of Lucerne | 40 | 1408 |
| South America | City of Riobamba, Quito | 41 | 18,800 |
| City of Quito | 42 | 9356 | |
| North America | City of Mexico | 43 | 7424 |
| Austria | Town of Eisenerz | 44 | 2056 |
| Egypt | The great Pyramid | 45 | 477 |
WATER IN GENERAL.
273. WATER, generally speaking, is a transparent and nearly incompressible fluid, the component parts of which are two kinds of gas, called hydrogen ([45]) and oxygen ([21]).
It is liquid in the common temperature of our atmosphere, assumes a solid state under the denomination of ice, in a cold temperature (32° of Fahrenheit’s thermometer); and, by heat at 212°, is converted into an elastic vapour of almost incredible force, called steam. At any temperature betwixt these two points, it returns, unaltered, to its liquid state. The weight of water is about 816 times greater than that of atmospheric air.
Water abounds in, and may be considered as, a kind of general cement to all solid bodies. It performs the most important functions both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and even enters largely into their composition.