COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



01? A 



'HYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



BY 



ALEXANDER YON HUMBOLDT. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 



BY E, C, OTTE, 



Naturse vero rerum vis atque majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret, si qnis modo partes 

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



VOL. III. 



LONDON: 



HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 

 1851. 



