ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 445 



Satisfactory accordance, and all the elements of the calculation are 

 placed before the public. The too easterly longitude of Quito was 

 transferred by La Condamine to Cuenca and the Amazons river. 

 " Je fis," says La Condamine, " mon premier essai de navigation sur 

 un radeau (balsa) en descendant la riviere de Chinchipe jusqu'a 

 Tomependa. II fallut me contenter d'en determiner la latitude et 

 de conclure la longitude par les routes. J'y fis mon testament 

 politique en redigeant Textrait de mes observations le plus impor- 

 tantes." (Journal du Voyage fait a 1'Equateur, 1751, p. 186.) 



(") p. 423. " At upwards of twelve thousand feet above the 



sea ice found fossil marine shells." 



See my Essai ge"ognostique sur le Gisement des Roches, 1823, 

 p. 236; and for the first zoological determination of the fossils 

 contained in the cretaceous group in the chain of the Andes, see 

 Leop. de Buch, Purifications recueillies en Amerique, par Alex, de 

 Humboldt et Charles Degenhardt, 1839 (in fol.), pp. 2-3, 5, 7, 9, 

 11, and 18-22. Pentland found fossil shells of the Silurian for- 

 mation in Bolivia, on the Nevado de Antakaua, at the height of 

 164,000 French (17,480 English) feet (Mary Somerville, Physical 

 Geography, 1849, vol. i. p. 185). 



f 13 ) p. 427. " Where the chain of the Andes is intersected Ly 

 the magnetic equator." 



Compare my Relation hist, du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales, 

 t. iii. p. 622; and Cosmos, bd. i. s. 191 and 432; where, however, 

 by e\ >rs of the press, the longitude is once 48 40', and afterwards 

 80 40', instead of, as it should.be, 80 54' from Paris (or 78 32' 

 from Greenwich), (English edit. p. 173, and note 159). 



(**) p. 429. "Accompanied by inconvenient ceremonies of court 



etiquette." 



In conformity with a highly ancient court ceremonial, Atahuallpa 



spat not on the ground,, but into the hand of one of the principal 



ladies present; "all," says Garcilasso, "on account of his majesty." 



El Inca nunca escupia en el suelo, sino en la mano de una Senora 



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