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Ee 410 1. F. Denning . On page 157 of the article in the JouRNAL, Professor Chant gives nine values for the height, with a mean of 33°S miles, after deducting half the estimated altitudes, I find that on computing from the same data, and correcting for earth's curvature, the mean comes out 35°S miles, and I cannot explain the discrepancy. If one-third instead of one-half of the altitudes is deducted, the mean height is 51 miles, which certainly appears too great. With regard to the thunder-like...