Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-14
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.

and the most durable features of the land ;
they are the immediate offspring OF the
globe, and owe their origin less to surface
action than any other of its features.
They are generally composed of rocks of
some description or ther, ofwhich there
are three elias ses which show that they |
have been produced by different causes
The first are those which have been pro-
duced by deeply seated action, without
any access to the atmosni fsassather
agent of combustion, or me & Sec
ondly, are those which appear 70 have
undergone greater or less degree of the
action of combustion, which begin with
por2hyry and end with the more recent
lavas which lave been rejected from vol
canoes. Thirdly, there are stratiied
rocks, including among others, the lime
stones, some of which are crystalline
texture, showing that they have been sub
jected to strong heat, under very great
pressure. The first may be termed sub
terranean socks, the range from granite
upwards to the older porphyry, or to the
more indurated species of the slaty or
stratified rocks The second may be
termed igneous rocks for though they
have not been produced by fire, they
show marks Of its action The third
may be regarded as consisting of debris
produced and accumulted by surface ac-
ton, the limestones generally speaking
and some of the others, having been
formed in the ocean.
In most of the continents, and many Of
the islInds, there are mountain SUBMITS
which rise above the limits of the st7ow,
and rise the higher the nearer they are to
the equator. The six highest mountains
in North America are as follows: Mt. ST.
ELIAS, in ALASKA II, $50 feet in height,
PoPOCATEPEI, Mexico, II, 200 f., ORIzA-
ia, Mexico, 15,7OO it,, Mt. HOOPER,
British America, 1880 f., 4IT BROWN
Rocky Mountains, [. S. 1880 it., IL
/ TICcHAHUATL, Mexico, -, 700 #. The four
highest in SOUTH AMERICA are: Aeon
( cAQUA (volcanol, Ghilian Andes, 23,915
f., CHIM8oRAzo, Ecuador, 21 427 it.,
/ NEVADA SoREro, Bolivia, q, ,2S6 it.,
NEVADA DE ILLnASI, Bolivia, q, 145 #.
The four highest in Europe are: Mt. Ell
BRoCZ CAUCASIAN MTs., roo f., MT.
/ KAsBECK, 1876 it., MOUNT BLANC,
Alps, -, 7S1 it., Mt. Rosa, 1855 it, The
/ five highest in ASIA are: KUNCHINGINGA
! Himalaya Mts. 28,17S it., DHAwALAGHI-
/ RI. 2S,073 ft., JEwAHIR, % TAT fl JAM
NoUTRI, 25,500 ft., DHAIBAN, "a, ,740 it.,
these all belong to the Himalaya cham
The three highest ID Africa, MT. Kill
A1ASDJoR, 10000 it., 1IT. KESIA, 1880
MI KEEsH, 10000 it. The three highest
in Oceanica, MoUNA KEA, Sandwich Is
lands, Is, 400 IT., MoUNA RoA, 5000 fl.
Mr.. OPHIR, 13,S40ft Mt. KUNAHINGIN
GA, is considered to be the highest noun
tain ON the globe.
High as many Of the mountains Of tho
globe appear to be, when contrasting thei
height with any we'll k..own object, they
are insignificant in comparison with it,
general mass. The inequalities on The
lcarth's surface may be compared to tht
roughness of the rind Of an orange, th'
highest mountain being about ige nliZeS il
perpendicular elevation, would be onl,
l-lO0 part Of the earths diameter. conse
quenty, on d globe sixteen inches in di
ameter, such mountain would be rep
e resented by a protuberance of not NOR
than the l-100 part of an inch. Now a
there is no entire continent, nor ever
any extensive tract of land known
whose general elevation above the sea
anything like half this quantity, it fol
lows that if we could construct correc
model OF our ealth, with ite seas, cont
' nents, and mountains, on a globe sixtee
inches in diameter, the whole Of the lane
with exception of q few prominent point
r and ridges, must be comprised on 1t with
: in the thickness of thin writing pape
l. and the highest hill would be represente
by the smallest grain of sand.
!. Baron Humboldt, has shown, by tn
y closest calculation, that the entire range {
= the lofty Alps, which cover an area {
,e $4,000 SO. miles, would if reduced to pow
is der, and spread over the continent c
a 4 Europe only raise its general surfac
tacenty-ose md a half feet and that th
= Pyrenees, which divide Spain fror
p France, would only have the effect {
III raising the same continent sac feet.
The mean height of Europe has bee
q y determined to be GIL it. above the level {
h., the sea; Asia, 1154 it,; and. the unite
continent of America 94gfl
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ward insensibility and unconsciousnes
. is that which renders alcohol so fascina
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a a effect Is to render the victim unfit t
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