Note 1 — Scene 2.
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Her mountains by some have been calculated nine miles high; but Dr. Herschell’s telescopes, which magnify 6500 times, have reduced her highest hills to about two miles. Mr. Shroeter apprehends that the mountain Leibnitz is not less than 25,000 feet high. The Craters of the Moon are from 4 to 15 miles diameter. He discovers some new spots on the Moon, and calculates her atmosphere to be 5376 feet high, an height so inconsiderable that it might escape our best telescopes or most minute observations.