Note 96 — Chapter V
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Capt. Owen’s altitude of Camaroons Mountain is 13,760 feet; Mr. Saker’s (46 feet more), 13,806; mine (641 less) 13,119. Mr. Saker’s boiling point at a place 150 feet below the summit was 188° (Fah.), temp. 59°. On the summit of Albert Mountain mine showed at 189°·2, temp. 62°. I prefer my own for this reason: M. Mann made the foot of Mount Hooker 10,875 feet, I the base of the Great Peak 10,530 feet, and taping up the slope found the cone to be 3300 feet long, thus rendering 13,800 feet too great an altitude. All, however, are mere approximations.