Crossword-Solution: NETHOU 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Hodgson and Herbert.); Chimborazo is 900 toises higher than Mont Blanc; and Mont Blanc 653 toises higher than the peak of Nethou.* (* This peak, called also peak of Anethou or Malahita, or eastern peak of Maladetta, is the highest summit of the Pyrenees.

The difference of the mean height of the Cordilleras (between 5 degrees north and 2 degrees south latitude) and the Swiss Alps, is consequently 200 toises less than the difference of their loftiest summits; and in comparing the passes of the Alps, we see that their average height is nearly the same, although peak Nethou is 600 toises lower than Mont Blanc and Mont Rosa.

Clemente Roxas, is 1826 toises above the level of the sea, consequently 39 toises higher than the loftiest summit of the Pyrenees (the granitic peak of Nethou) and 83 toises lower than the trachytic peak of Teneriffe.

The chief points in the Pyrenees, nevertheless, run them fairly close, as shown in the following table:-- GREATEST ALTITUDES IN FEET _Sierra Neváda._ Mulahacen 11,781 Picacho de la Veleta 11,597 Alcazába 11,356 Cerro de los Machos 11,205 Col de la Veleta 10,826 _Pyrenees._ Pico de Nethou 11,168 Monte de Posets 11,046 Monte Perdido 10,994 By way of comparison it may be added that the next greatest elevations in Spain are:-- Picos de Europa (described in Chap.

Here are the famous Monts Maudits, with the Pic de Nethou, the highest of the Pyrenees (three thousand four hundred and four metres), with a summit plateau or belvedere perhaps twenty metres in length by five in width.