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4. Peak of Teneriffe 73 



R. Boyle. Edens. Feuillee. Glas. Riche and Blavier. Von 

 Humboldt. Cordier. L. de Buch. Dumont d'Urville. Le 

 Guillou. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville. Itier. Madame Murray. 



5. Alps _' 77 



Bourrit. Laborde. De Saussure. Beaufoy. Forneret and Dor- 

 theren. De Lusy. Van Rensselaer. Hamel. Clissold. Clark 

 and Sherwill. Hawes and Fellowes. Auldjo. Meyer. Parrot. 

 Vincent and Zumstein. Molinatti. Hugi. H. Cloquet. Martin 

 Barry. Atkins. Mademoiselle d'Angeville. Desor. G. Studer. 

 Spitaler. Forbes. Lepileur. Bravais. Martins. Chomel and 

 Crozet. Tyndall. Tyndall and Frankland. Pitschner. Piachaud. 

 Lortet and Marcet. Durier. A. Tissandier. Hardy. Tuckett. 

 Kennedy. C. Grove. Visconti. Gamard. Joanne. Ormsby. 

 H. Russell. 



6. Pyrenees 120 



Rob. Boyle. Dralet. Ramond. Arbassiere. Cordier and Neer- 

 gaard. Parrot. De Franqueville. Russell-Killough. Le Mula- 

 hacen. 



7. Caucasus. Armenia. Persia 123 



Engelhardt and Parrot. Kupffer. Sjorgrun. Radde. Douglas 

 Freshfield. Gardiner. 



Rob. Boyle. Tournefort. Parrot. Chodzko. Radde and Siev- 



ers. Hamilton. 



Taylor Thomson. R. F. Thomson. 



8. Central Asia i 128 



Marco-Polo. Hiouen. Tsang. Chinese Itinerary. Missionaries. 



S. Turner. Th. Hardwicke. Moorcroft. Fraser. Webb. 

 Gerard Brothers. Johnson. V. Jacquemont. Wood. Burnes. 

 Father Hue. Hoffmeister. Th. Thomson. Dalton Hooker. 

 Robertson. Mistress Hervey. Oliver. Cheetam. Semenof. 

 Schlagintweit Brothers. Godwin-Austin. The Pundits. The 

 Mirza. Hayward. Faiz Buksh. Henderson. Hume. Drew. 



9. Africa 161 



Burton. Mann. Rebmann. De Decken. New. 



10. Volcanoes of the Pacific 162 



Low. Brooke. Braddel. Rutherford Alcock. Gubbins. Jef- 

 freys. Byron. D. Douglas. Loenenstern. Wilkes. 



Chapter II. Balloon Ascensions 171 



Charles and Robert. Leullier-Duche. Testu-Brissy. Blanchard. 

 De Lalande. Robertson. Garnerin. Zambeccari. Biot and Gay- 

 Lussac. Andreoli. Beaufoy and Sadler. Madame Blanchard. 

 Eug. Robertson. Green. Comaschi. Hobard. Barral and Bixio. 

 Welsh. Glaisher. Croce-Spinelli and Sivel. Simons. 



Chapter III. Theories and Experiments 195 



Acosta. Fr. Bacon. Academy del Cimento. Van Musschenbroeck. 

 Robert Boyle. Huyghens and Papin. Beale. Veratti. Cigna. 

 Darwin. Borelli. Bouguer. Ulloa. Haller. De Luc. Bourrit. 



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