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Patea Mail, 22 May 1882, Page 3

Height of Mount' Cook.—Dr Hector writes to a Wellington paper : —“ The Rey Mr Green, who made thpascent' of Mount Cook in' March last, informs me that the reading of his. barometer in v the highest elevation; he attained- was; 19-05 inches. This corrected for temperature, and compared with, the barpmeter reduced to sea ’ level for the same;date and position, indicates the altitude to have been 11,962 ft .r According tom recent measurement .by Mr G. J. Roberts, of the Trigonometrical Survey Staff, the altitude of Mount Cook v is 12,349 ft-; so that Mr Green’s highest point was‘- within 387 ft. of the summit, assuming that ;both measurements refer to the same peak;?’ ;;

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