The most lofty place in the world regularly inhabited by human beings is the Buddhist Monastery of Haine, in Thibet, which is about 17,000 ft above the sea level. The highest inhabited spot on the western hemisphere is Galera, a railway station in Peru, which is 15,635 ft above the Pacific’s i»W tid®. ‘ ' . .
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12158, 23 March 1900, Page 3
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