COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



TRANSLATED FHOM THE GERMAN, 



BY E. C. OTTE. 



Naturae vero rerum vis atquo inajestas in omnibus momentis fide caret, si quia modo 

 partes ejus ac non totam complectatur animo. Plin., Hist. Nat., lib. vii., c. 1. 



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