Bubetance of th> u Voya given, for '/<> work extendi 



to ihr \tavo volumes, of four or fivi hundred pages 



<<!<■},. it would hath been easy to havi rewritten this mat- 

 ter, but the author could n<>t see the advantage of so doing: 

 his book would havt gained something in originality, but 

 it ir, ,>//,/ have lost much m<>r< in interest* No writer of 

 travels, ancient or modern, can compare with tTumboldt in 

 descripHvi power, especially in the "Voyage," wht re his 

 words are pictures. Tins, pictures have been faithfully 

 transf m d to the chapU rs nu ntiom d, and ore comm< n<l> d 

 to tin read r*8 atU ntion. 



The r}i<ij>t< rs on Colombia and Peru, an<f Mexico, an 

 ), ,<i</. up from the " Vues des Cordilleres," the "Ansichten 

 der Natur," and the "Essai politique sur le Royaume de 

 Nouvelle Espagne.'' They ore not so compleU as the 

 author could hare fish,,/, hut that is rather Humboldt? 8 

 fault thou his own,fortfu "Voyage" which would hove 

 furnished material for them, ho,/ ;t ever been completed, 

 ends oi>ri>),ti : / at Cdrthagena. Beyond that point the 

 narrative of the journey ceases. Gleams of it <>--cur, 

 however, in Humboldt's of/or works, chiefly in those Just 

 mentioned, ami it is by these that his progress has }„-en 

 fro,-, ,1 ,i,,til his return to Wurope. If this portion of the 

 Biography lacks t?u picturesque <m,i advi nturous element 

 of t},, chapters that preced it, it has at least th, merit of 

 variety, and of being th\ fullest account ofth last two or 

 three years of Humboldfs eventful journey in the Kew 

 World Th> works specified abavt having been translated 

 into English, the translations have been generally used, 



