The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 422
number of long and loftyranges of mountains, resembling terrestrial mountains,exist on the Moon. The lunar mountains, it may benoted, are not only relatively but actually higher thanthose of the Earth. Mt. Everest, the giant of theHimalayas, the loftiest mountain in the world, is onlya trifle more… … Yerkes Observatory Plate XXIX. The Great Lunar Crater Copernicus The Moon 349 more than forty lunar mountains that are higher thanis Mt. McKinley, Alaska, the highest peak in NorthAmerica, its height being only 20,464 feet. Of thelarger mountain ranges, most of which are named afterterrestrial…
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