CONTENTS. 



Publisher's Preface ... 



Author's Preface, to the First Edition 



Author's Preface, to the Second and Third Editions 



Summary of Contents... 



Steppes and Deserts ... 

 Illustrations and Additions 



Cataracts of the Orinoco 

 Illustrations and Additions 



Nocturnal Life of Animals in the Primeval Forest 



Illustrations and Additions 

 Hypsometric Addenda 



Ideas for a Physiognomy of Plants ... 

 Illustrations and Additions 



On the Structure and Mode of Action of Volcanos 

 different parts of the Earth 

 Illustrations and Additions 



Yital Force, or The Rhodian Genius ... 



Illustration and Note... 



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The Plateau cf Caxamarca, the Ancient Capital of the Inca 

 Atahuallpa, and First View of the Pacific from the Ridge 

 of the Andes ... ... ... ... ... 390 



Illustrations and Additions ... ... ... ... 421 



Index 



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