THE 



, TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT; 



BEING 

 A CONDENSED NARRATIVE OF HIS JOURNEYS IN THE 



EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OP AMERICA, AND IN 

 ASIATIC RUSSIA: TOGETHER WITH 

 ANALYSES OP HIS MORE IMPORT- 

 ANT INVESTIGATIONS. 



BY W. MACGILLIVRAY, A.M., 



Conservator of the Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Member of 

 the Natural History Societies of Edinburgh and Philadelphia, &c. 



.WITH A MAP OF THE ORINOCO, AND ENGRAVINGS. 



NEW-YORK: 



PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, 



No. 82 CLIFF-STREET, 



AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT 

 THE UNITED STATES. 



1833. 



