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                <head>5. <hi rendition="#i">Heights of Table Lands.</hi>
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            <cell>Toises above the sea.</cell>
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                <p>These table lands are not longitudinal valleys between ranges of<lb break="yes" />mountains. The bottom of a longitudinal valley, which is from<lb break="yes" />1500 to 2000 toises above the sea, as is the case in the Andes,<lb break="yes" />is caused by the elevation of a whole <hi rendition="#i">mountain chain.</hi> True<lb break="yes"/>table lands, such as those of Spain and Bavaria, were probably<lb break="yes"/>formed by the upraising of a whole <hi rendition="#i">continental mass.</hi> Both<lb break="yes"/>epochas are geognostically considered different.&#x2014;<hi rendition="#i">Humboldt.</hi>
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            <head>6. <hi rendition="#i">Lake Aral.</hi>
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