XV.] MEASUREMENTS OF HEIGHT. 337

the distance \ hail, 0 King, and grant -us thy blessing." For all
this,' Plutarch continues, 'the geometricians maintain that no
mountain is of greater height, nor any part of the sea of greater
depth, than 10 stadia; yet Xenagoras does not seem to have
made his computation carelessly, but strictly with the help of
instruments1.' About the height of Cyllene also there were other,
and widely divergent estimates, besides that already given. Apol-
lodorus reckoned it at 80 feet less than nine stadia2 (5,320 feet).
And Strabo says that by some it was computed by perpendicular
measurement as 20 stadia (12,000 feet), by others as about
15 stadia8 (9,000 feet). By the latter of these two numbers the
calculation of Dicaearchus was probably meant. Strabo also
records the elevation of the Acrocorinth, which he says was
estimated as three stadia and a half (2,100 feet) in vertical height*.
This is approximately true, for the real measurement is 1,887
English feet.

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Anc. Geography* vol. I. p. 618; Berger, GeschichU der Erdkunde^ Pt. 3, p. 53.

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