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132 Macedon to the Ile of Lemnos which is 700 furlongs or 84 miles, and yet according to the common reckoning it doth scarce reach 4 miles upwards, in its perpendicular height.

2., I affirme that there are very high Mountaines in the Moone, Keplar and Galilæus thinke that they are higher than any which are upon our earth. But I am not of their opinion in this, because I suppose they goe upon a false ground whilst they conceive that the highest mountaine upon the earth is not above a mile perpendicular.

Whereas 'tis the common opinion and found true enough by observation, that Olympus, Atlas, Taurus and Emus, with many others are much above this height. Tenariffa in the Canary Ilands is proved by computation to bee above 8 miles perpendicular, and about this height is the mount Perjacaca in America. Sr. Walter Rh