Great
Saint Bernard, 1246 toises; Simplon, 1029 toises; and on the neck of
the Pyrenees, Benasque, 1231 toises; Pinede, 1291 toises; Gavarnic,
1197 toises; Cavarere, 1151 toises; it would be difficult to affirm
that the Pyrenees are lower than the average height of the Swiss
Alps.)
TABLE OF HEIGHTS OF VARIOUS RANGES.
COLUMN 1 : NAMES OF THE CHAINS OF MOUNTAINS.
COLUMN 2 : THE HIGHEST SUMMITS IN TOISES.
COLUMN 3 : MEAN HEIGHT OF THE RIDGE IN TOISES.
COLUMN 4 : PROPORTION OF THE MEAN HEIGHT OF THE RIDGES TO THAT A THE
HIGHEST SUMMITS.
Himalayas (between north latitude : 4026 : 2450 : 1 : 1.6.
30 degrees 18 minutes and 31 degrees
53 minutes, and longitude 75 degrees
23 minutes and 77 degrees 38 minutes)
Cordillera of the Andes (between : 3350 : 1850 : 1 : 1.8.
latitude 5 and 2 degrees south)
Alps of Switzerland : 2450 : 1150 : 1 : 2.1.
Pyrenees : 1787 : 1150 : 1 : 1.5.
Littoral Chain of Venezuela : 1350 : 750 : 1 : 1.8.
Group of the Mountains of the Parime : 1300 : 500 : 1 : 2.6.
Group of the Mountains of Brazil : 900 : 500 : 1 : 2.3.
If we distinguish among the mountains those which rise sporadically,
and form small insulated systems,* (* As the groups of the Canaries,
the Azores, the Sandwich Islands, the Monts-Dores, and the Euganean
mountains.) and those that make part of a continued chain,* (* The
Himalayas, the Alps, and the Andes.) we find that, notwithstanding the
immense height* of the summits of some insulated systems (* Among the
insulated systems, or sporadic mountains, Mowna-Roa is generally
regarded as the most elevated summit of the Sandwich Islands.
