pico, m., point, peak, summit; small amount, odd; balance; cortado á , perpendicular, precipitous; allá por los años de mil trescientos y , back there in the year thirteen hundred and something.

Sighting a granite range to the eastward, they made towards it, but the outlook from its summit brought nothing but exceeding disappointment.

The range, destined to be associated with so many subsequent important explorations, was a mass of naked rocks, and from the summit they could see nothing but the interminable scrub thickets, and in the distance the thin blue line of ocean.

From the summit, however, he had an extensive view, and was enabled to sketch in the courses of the various rivers for over twenty miles.

During the return journey to Nickol Bay, he ascended Mount Samson, and from the summit obtained an extensive view that embraced every prominent peak within seventy miles, including Mount Bruce to the north, and Mount Augustus to the south, the distance between these two elevations being 124 geographical miles.

From its summit he obtained an extensive but depressing view, such as too often greeted the explorer at that time and in that part of Australia.

Following up the Margaret, a tributary of the Fitzroy, he managed to work round the southern end of the range, which still frowned defiance at him, and at last reached the summit, the crest of a tableland, whence he saw before him good grassy hills and plains.

On the 11th, a high mountain, its summit covered with snow, was seen, and named Mount Egmont; Wharton gives its height as 8,300 feet, and describes it as a magnificent conical mountain surrounded on three sides by the sea.

This was Roberta, and those woods were a far better place than the exposed summit of Pine Top Hill, in which to plight his troth, if it should be so that he should be able to do it, and there were doubtless paths in those woods through which they might afterwards wander, if things should turn out propitiously.

The first landmarks, in fact, which the seaman makes, are the tops of trees growing apparently out of the water, or the summit of an obelisk, or the capital of a pillar, marking the site of some ancient and dilapidated city.

The curvature of the earth requires that a light-house on a coast should have a considerable elevation, otherwise its summit would not appear above the horizon, unless the mariner were very near.

Ptolemy ordered that, in completing the tower, a marble tablet should be built into the wall, at a suitable place near the summit, and that a proper inscription should be carved upon it, with his name as the builder of the edifice conspicuous thereon.

Besides the light that beamed from the summit of this lofty tower, there was another center of radiance and illumination in ancient Alexandria, which was in some respects still more conspicuous and renowned, namely, an immense library and museum established and maintained by the Ptolemies.

Tananarievo, the capital, stands on the summit of a lofty hill, and commands an extensive prospect of the surrounding country.

Then, from within, a host of figures surged up against the sky, and a curious conflict raged on the very summit of the work.

While gazing at the summit of this tower, and calling to mind the magnificent view he had recently witnessed from it at the same hour, if a wish could have transported him thither at that moment, he would have enjoyed it again.

While thus occupied, his gaze remained riveted on the summit of the central tower, and he fancied he perceived some one leaning over the balustrade; but as little beyond the upper part of the figure could be discerned, and as it appeared perfectly motionless, he could not be quite sure that his eyes did not deceive him.

" Acting upon the suggestion, Leonard mounted to the belfry, and from thence to the summit of the tower.

On reaching the spiral staircase, he said, "If you desire to behold a sight, such as a man has seldom witnessed, ascend to the summit of this tower an hour after midnight, when all these fires are lighted.

He did not pause till he reached the summit of the tower, and there, indeed, a wondrous spectacle awaited him.

Keeping the ridgeway, the footpath, between the fields she went onward, Having the lofty pear-tree in view, which stood on the summit, And was the boundary-mark of the fields that belonged to her dwelling.

Then with a deep emotion the maiden gazed on the stripling; Neither forbade she embrace and kiss, the summit of rapture, When to a loving pair they come as the longed for assurance, Pledge of a lifetime of bliss, that appears to them now never-ending.

This, however, was sufficient; another such puff, and the ship was almost out of danger; but before it came the projecting summit of the smaller berg was overhanging the deck.

As the young giant rose a little black figure became visible to him against that western incandescence on the top of the embankment that towered above the summit of the down.

The infinite fulness of God surpasses all my thought;a breadth without a limit, a length without a termination, a height without a summit, and a depth without a bottom.