Meanwhile Armitage and Skelton had reached, for the first time in history, the high Antarctic inland plateau at an altitude of 9,000 feet above the sea.
It did not look lofty or imposing, but was, nevertheless, 1,000 feet above the sea.
We estimated our camp that evening to be 500 feet above the sea.
The streams from the mountains right and left of Glen Gluoy would pour their waters into that glen, forming a lake, the level of which would be determined by the height of the col at A, 1170 feet above the sea.
Let us suppose Glen Spean filled from v to w with ice of a uniform elevation of 1,500 feet above the sea, the ice not filling the upper part of that glen.
According to Khanikoff it is 5535 feet above the sea.
Roche Colombe, 4595 feet above the sea, and opposite, on the other side, is the Roc, an isolated cliff like the shaft of a column.
Burine, situated on a bed of lava from the crater of Mont Gravenne, 2785 feet above the sea.
Roan Station is on the Doe River (which flows down from Roan Mountain), and is marked at 1265 feet above the sea.
The story must be told by Wilson, who was there: "The day before the storm broke we were on an old outlying cone of Mount Terror, about 1300 feet above the sea.
The hut itself was some twelve feet above the sea, and situated upon what was now an almost sandy beach of black lava.
Accordingly we left Catania soon after midday, and drove to Nicolosi, twelve miles distant, and 2,288 feet above the sea.
A ruined tower near the head of the Val del Bove, 9,570 feet above the sea, has from time immemorial been called the Torre del Filosofo, and is asserted to have been the observatory of Empedokles.
Nicely wooded, it rose to an elevation of about 200 feet above the sea, and, the summit being comparatively level and clear from trees, we had a good view of Inverness and its surroundings.
Here the downs terminate abruptly, leaving the town standing 700 feet above the sea level on the extreme point, with precipices on three sides.
The Saddle is about 2100 feet above the sea-level, at least that was the estimate given a year later by Count Bertou, a Frenchman, who visited those localities at that time.
The most frequented resort of the English in Kashmir during July and August; stands some 8500 feet above the sea, wherefore some people find the air too rarefied.
Shells are found 1300 feet above the sea, covered with marine mud.
Almora used to be a Gurkha stronghold, and is now a charming little hill station situated some 5300 feet above the sea-level.
The latter is a much smaller bird, and I have not observed it anywhere higher than 4500 feet above the sea-level.
By observations from this hill I made the height of Mount William about 4,500 feet above the sea.
A light-coloured compact calcareous rock resembling mountain limestone; at Buree and Wellington, rising, at the former place, to the height of about 1500 feet above the sea.
The elevation of the country there is considerable (being about one thousand five hundred feet above the sea on the level part) and, except near the Shoalhaven and Wollondilly rivers, not much broken into ravines.
The temperature at the elevation of about 2000 feet above the sea is so low even in summer that potatoes and gooseberries, for both of which the climate of Sydney is too hot, grow luxuriantly.
The extreme eastern and highest summit is Mount William, in height 4,500 feet above the sea.
On leaving Primadengo I went on to Calpiognia, and there too I found the children's faces all purple with cherry juice; thence I ascended till I got to a monte, or collection of chalets, about 5680 feet above the sea.
The town is 2365 feet above the sea, and is never too hot even in the height of summer.
It lies nearly 4000 feet above the sea, so that even in summer the air is cool.
Going still higher, I at last came upon a small lake close to the top of the range: I find this lake given in the map as about 7400 feet above the sea.
The name of the place is Kenagagara, 1810 feet above the sea-level, E.
At Chokinumu, a village 1600 feet above the sea, S.
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