Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — D[?]ellers in High Places. [ARTICLE]

D[?]ellers in High Places.

of Potosi, In Bolivia, South America is 13,330 feet above sea level. Galera, a railway station in Peru, has an elevation of 15,635 feet, and near it, at the same level, a tunnel 3,847 feet long is being driven through the mountains. Leadville, Col., is 10,200 feet above the sea. But the highest elevation, it is said, at which any regularly inhabited dwelling is found is that of a Buddhist monastery in Thibet —16,C0) feet.