The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831

part in bulk of many of the highest mountains; indeed, if we except

volcanic mountains, of all the more elevated masses. The transition and secondary formations are subject to similar although less changes of level, rising, as has been seen, to the tops of the Pyrenees, and to even a greater height on the sides of the Andes. The tertiary or superior formations are found in Italy and...