. The earth and its inhabitants .. . I0°30 2 Miles. sides by deep valleys or gorges, and form a well-defined group of rocky pinnacles. The Brenner, and the pass above the Malser Heide (see Fig. 1), are the low^est passages over the Alps between Liguria and Styria, a distance of over 500 miles. This group of the Oetzthal constitutes the most formidable mountain mass of the German Alps. The Wild,spitze (12,389 feet), its culminating point, yields in height to the Orteler and the Great Glockner ; but there are at least a hundred summits which attain an elevation of 10,000 feet, and they rise from
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . I0°30 2 Miles. sides by deep valleys or gorges, and form a well-defined group of rocky pinnacles. The Brenner, and the pass above the Malser Heide (see Fig. 1), are the low^est passages over the Alps between Liguria and Styria, a distance of over 500 miles. This group of the Oetzthal constitutes the most formidable mountain mass of the German Alps. The Wild,spitze (12,389 feet), its culminating point, yields in height to the Orteler and the Great Glockner ; but there are at least a hundred summits which attain an elevation of 10,000 feet, and they rise from a platform 5,320 feet in height. If the summits of the Oetzthal were to be levelled, and uniformly spread over this platform, the latter would still rise 8,330 feet above the sea. About one-seventh of the surface of this mountain group is buried beneath
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