Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-30
The Greatest Things Oh Earth.

The highest range Of mountains Is the
Himalayas, the mean elevation being esti.
mated at from 5000 to 5000 feet,
The loftiest mountain is Mount Everett
or Guarisanker, of the TI:mllava range ,
having an elevation OF % 0)2 feet above
the sea level.
The largest theatre Is tho new opera
house in Paris. It covers nrlrly three
acres of ground. Its cubic mass il 4, 2S7..
600 feet. 1t cost about 100 900. 900 frames.
The largest city in the world is London.
Its ponulatiOn numbers 3.02OS7I souls
New York, with population of ab )nt
l,25O,000. comes fifth in the list of oreat
cities.
The largest suspension bridge will be
the one now building between Now York
and Brooklyn. The length of the m lin
span is |, ,595 feet and 6 inches, the entire
length of the bridge $3.50 feet.
The loftiest active volcano is PoD,,,te.
petl-" Smoking Mountain "-thir y-iive
miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico 1t is
l7,Io4 feet above the sea level, anil has n
crater three miles in circumference and
1000 feet deep
The largest island in the world. which
IS also regarded rs a continent, is Australia.
1t is $500 miles in length from east to
west and measures $50 miles north to
sonth. Its area is 2,9S4.2S7 square miles
The longest span of wire in the world
Is used for telegraph in In Tia over the
river kistnah, between Bezorah and Sec
tanagrund. 1t is more than 6,0O0 feet
long, and is stretched between two hills,
each of which is 1900 feet high.
The largest ship in the world is the
Great Eastern. She is CSC feet long. SO
feet broad, and 60 feet deep, being % 927
tons burden, 1915 gross and 1884 net
register. She was built at Millwall, on
the Thames, and was launched January
81, 1857.
The largest university is Oxford, in
England, in the city of the same name,
hlty five miles from London. 1t consists
OF twenty one colleges and five halls.
Oxford was seat of learning as early as
the time of Edward the confcsSor. Uni
versity college claims to have been found
ed by Alfred
The largest body of fresh water on the
globe is Lake Slperior-40O miles long,
l6O miles wide at its greatest breadth,
and having an area of 80. 900 square miles.
Its mem depth is said to be lG0, and its
greatest depth about 200 fathoms. Its
surface is about 635 feet above the level of
the sea.
The most extensive park is Deer park, F.,
in the environs of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The enclosure contains about 4,200 acres,
and Is divided by small river. The lar
gest pleasure ground in this country, and
one of the largest in the world, is Fair
mount park, Philadelphia, which contains
2,740 acres.
The biggest cavern is the Mammoth
cave in Edmondson county, Ky. 1t is
near Green river, six miles from Gave CITY,
and about twenty eight miles from Bow i.
ling Green. The cave consists of sue
cession of irregular chambers, some of
which are large, situated on different levels.
Some of these are traversed bv navig, ,.be
branches Of the subterranean Echo river.
Blind fish are found in its waters.
The largest tunnel in the world is that
of St. Gothard, on the line of the railroad
between Lucerne and Milan. The summit
of the tunnel is 900 feet below the surface
at Andermatt, and 6,600 feet beneath the
peak of Kastlehorn, of the St. Gothard
group. The tunnel is 26 1-3 feet wide,
and 10 feet 10 inches from the floor to the
crown of the arched roof 1t is 81 .
miles longer than the Mount Gents tunnel.
The biggest trees in the world are the
mammoth trees of California. One of Il
grove in Tulare county, according to
measurement made by members of the
state geological survey, was shown to be
276 feet high, l06 feet in circumference at
base, and 76 feet at a point II feet above
the ground. Some of the trees are 37G
feet high and 81 feet in diameter. Some
of the largest trees that have been feled
indicate an age of from 1000 to $500
years.