United States or Cuba ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I do not know that accurate levels have been taken in the valley of the Jordan above the Lake of Tiberias, and our information is very vague as to the hypsometry of the northern part of the Wadi-el-Araba. As little do we know where a contour line, carried around the basin at the level of the Mediterranean, would strike its eastern and western borders.
Oh, wisdom of man and the apparatus of the sciences, the little columns of mercury that sling up and down, the vacuum boxes that expand and contract, the hammer that chips the highest rocks, the compass that takes the bearings of glacier and ridge all the equipage of hypsometry and geology and geodesy how pitifully feeble and childish it seems to cope with the majesty of the mountains!
Word Of The Day