Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — The Summit of Our Continent. [ARTICLE]

The Summit of Our Continent.

Professor Iglesias, of San Luis Potosi, maintains that the barometrical measurements of Mexican mountains have been formulated without due allowance for the influence of the coast climate, and that Mount Orizaba, not Popocatapetl, is the summit of the North American continent. It is certainly the finest mountain of the Mexican Cordilleras. Its rival humps its broad back above the naked hills of the central plateau, while Orizaba lifts its symmetrical cone high above the pine summits of the coast range, as the only snow peak which the mariners of the Gulf can view in its full grandeur. The height exceeds that of Mont Blanc by at least two thousand feet.— Professor Oswald. “It is as harmless as it is effective,” is what is said of Red Star Cough Cure by Dr. 8. K. Cox, D. D., Analytic Chemist, Washington, D. C. Price, twenty-five cents.