THE 



TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES 



OF 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT; 



BEIKO 



A CONDENSED NARRATIVE OF HIS JOURNEYS IN THE 

 EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF AMERICA, AND IN 

 ASIATIC RUSSIA: — TOGETHER WITH 

 ANALYSES OF HIS MORE IMPORT- 

 ANT INVESTIGATIONS. 



BY W. MACGILLIVRAY, A.M., 



Consen'atoT 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 THB 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. 



