TABLE OF CONTENTS 



First Part 

 HISTORICAL 



Page 



Title I. Diminished pressure 3 



Preliminary chapter: the lofty regions of the globe. 3 



Europe " 



Asia 10 



America *2 



15 



Africa 



Islands 15 



Summary 16 



Eternal snows ^ 



Living organisms 18 



First chapter. Mountain journeys — 22 



1. South America 22 



The Conquerors. Acosta. De Herrera. Frezier. Bouguer. 



La Condamine. Don Ulloa. A. von Humboldt. Wars of Inde- 

 pendence. S. Haigh. Miers. Caldcleugh. Schmidtmeyer. 

 Brand. De la Touanne. Temple. Bollaert. D'Orbigny. Poep- 

 pig. Boussingault. Meyers. Ch. Darwin. Smyth and Lowe. 

 Arch. Smith. CI. Gay. Von Tschudi. De Castelnau. Weddell. 

 De Saint-Cricq. Gillis. Lloyd. Grandidier. Burmeister. 

 Markham. Martin de Moussy. Mateo Paz Soldan. Guilbert. 

 Pellegrino Strobel. Focke and Mossbach. Pissis. Wisse. 

 J. Remy. Steubel. 



2. Central and North America 59 



Wafer. Dollfus and 'de Montserrat. Burkhardt. Elliotson. 

 Glennie. Gros. Truqui and Craveri. Laverriere. Scientific 

 Commission of Mexico. Von Muller. Fremont. Gunnison. 

 Hines. Williamson. Coleman. 



3. Etna 69 



Bembo. Filoteo. Fazello. Borelli. Riedesel. Demeunier. 

 Houel. Delon. Dolomier. Spallanzani. Ferrara. De Gour- 

 billon. De Forbin. De Sayve. 

 XXI 



