RECORD: Eck, Frederick Andrew. [9.1834]. Height of various places in Chili ascertained by Barometrical admeasurement. CUL-DAR35.232. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections by Gordon Chancellor 5.2011, edited by John van Wyhe. RN2
NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
Information supplied by Frederick Andrew Eck (1806/7-1884), Swiss-born banker and collector of mineral specimens in South America, 1825-1852. He is mentioned in DAR 35.231, 376, 411, the Galapagos notebook, p. 7b, and South America, p. 59. This is letter 256 but not transcribed in Correspondence vol. 1, p. 407, but in the appendix to vol. 30, pp. 156-7.
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Height of various places in Chili ascertained by Barometrical admeasurement
| "Great Bell" mountain near Quillota | 4716 | Feet above the level of the sea |
| "Aguia del Guanacos" (at the foot of do) | 4243 | |
| "San Cristoval" (near St. Jago) | 2678 | |
| "St. Jago" | 1732 | |
| Summit of "Cuista de Prado" | 2515 | |
| Summit of "Cuista de Zapata" | 1914 | |
| Town of "Casa Blanca" | 811 | |
| Village of "Plazilla" | 1049 | |
| Highest point on the road between Valp.o & the Plazilla | 1520 | |
| do point of the Quebrada Vindi near Valpo | 1076 |
Fred A. Eck
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