COSMOS: 



i 



A SKETCH 



OF 



A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



TBAXSLATED FKOM THE GERMAN, 



BY E. C OTTE. 



Naturo Tero rerura vis atquc majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret, si quis modo 

 partes ejus ac non totara complcctatur animo. — Plin., Hist. Nat., lib. vii. c. I. 



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