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fathoms meafured by the barometer. They are asfollow :

Level of the fea,

The Rhone , and Lake of Geneva , and

o

Camgon, the top of the Pyrenees i Quito in Peru , -The road over Mount Cenis,

The higheft point of Mouufc Cenis,Pic of Teneriffe,

* 43 °

1460

1510

2150

Mount Blanc , 14 or 15 leagues to the ^

fouth-eaft of Geneva, and vifible at V 2676

60 leagues off, atLangres, - )

Chimboraco, the highefl mountain ofthe Cordilleras of the Andes , and

j” 3220

perhaps of the world, - ^

Mr. Condamine remarks , that in the Roman lvgh-ways the joinings of the flones are never placed inthe fame diredbon with that of the motion of thecarriages that travelled over them ; and that the bedof the Tiber rauft have acquired ten or twelve feetin height, becaufe the ancient pavementofthe pan-theon is overflowed to that height every winter.The emerald of Genoa is only a piece of glafs.

April 1.]—Iread Spanheim , Dijfert. VI. p. 533 —-58 g; and DiJJert .' VII. p. 589—633. He continuesthe chapter concerning offices, particularly thofe oflegates and proprætors , whom the emperors fentinto the provinces, and who were diftinguifbed bythe epithet “ Confular ” towards the time of theAntonines. He then proceeds to the medals of em-perors and emprefles. 1 have met with nothing morecurious than the article concerning thofe princeffes.I fhould not be a ftranger at their courts, fmce I