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in order to kill it and 10 prey upon its carcass. Butthis astonishment must, in a great degree, subside, when the di- mensions of the bird are taken into con- sideration, and which, incredible as they may appear, now insert Verbatiaa from a note taken down with my own hand. : When the wings are spread, they mea- sure sixteen paces {f0 feet) in extent, from point to point; the feathers are eight paees go feeD in length, and the quill part two palms (8 inches) in cir conference. It is said to have powers sufficient to carry of a live rhinoceros.
 Edmund Temples Tapels in Peru.
 Lofy .flgM of the Condor.-The re- zion which may be considered as the habitual abode of the Condor, begins at height equal to that of Etna, and com prehends strata of air al an elevation of from 9,600 to ls,000 feet above the lev elof thesea. 'Iiheiargest individuals that are met with in the chain of the Andes of Quito, are about fl feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other, and the smallestoHly eight. From these dimen- sions, and from the visual angle under
 which this bird sometimes appears per pendicularly above our heads, il may
 beiudged to what prodigious height it rises when the sky is clear. When seen, for example, under an angle of four minutes, it must be at perpendie- ular distance of 6,S76feet. The Cave of Antisiana, situated opposite the noun tain of Chussulongo, and from which we measured the bird soaring, is situa- ted at height of l2,958 feet above the level of the Pacific Ocean. Thus, the height which the Condor at tained was 20,S34 feet, an elevation at which the barometer scarcely rises to l2 inches. It is a somewhat remarka- hle physiological phenomenon, ttEhia ttEieastt tllii liii bird, which for'hours continues to fly about in regions where the air is so rar- flied, all at once deseends to the edge Of the sea, as along the western slope of the volcano of Pinchincha, and thus in a few minute passes as 1t were through all the varieties of climate.-At al height of 20,000 feet, the air-cells of the Condor which are filled in the lowest regions, must be inflated in an extraor- dinary manner.-Sixty years ago IIIloa expressed his astonishment at the cir constance that the yulfure of the An des could fly at a height where the mean pressure of the air is only If inch es.
 At heights like these man in general finds himself reduced to most painful state of debility. In the Condor on the contrary, the act of respiration appears to be performed with equal ease, in me diums where the pressures differs from l2 to 3O inches. Ofall living beings it is without doubt the one that can rise at will to the greatest distance from the earth's surface. say, at will, because small insects arc carried still higher by ascending currents. Probably the height which the Condorattainsis great CT than that which we have found by the calculation mentioned above. l re- member that on Cotopaxi, in the Plain of Suniguaicu, covered with pumice. and elevated i3,57S feet above the level of iile sea, perceived the bird at such a height thatit appeared likea black dot. The transparency of the air of moun- tains is so great under the equator, that, in the province of Quito, as have else where shown, the poncho or white man tie of person on horseback is distin- guishable at a horizontal distance of S1. o32 feet.-E Edinburgh .leap Philosophical Journal.
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