COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



OP A 



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 



BY E, C, OTTE, 



Nature; vero rerum vis atquemajestasin omnibus momentis fide caret, si guis modoparteS- 

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



VOL. II. 



LONDON: 



HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 

 1849. 



