

COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



OP 



A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 

 BY E. C. OTTE" AND W. S. DALLAS, F.L.S. 



Nature vero rcrum vis atque majestas in omnibus moment!* fide caret, si quis mod, 

 partos ejus ac non totam complectatur animo.-Plin., ///.-. X a t., lib. vii., c. 1. 



VOL. V. 



NEW YORK: 



HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 

 320 & 331 PEARL STREET, 



FRANKLIN SQUARE. 



1875. 



