COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



Off A 



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON (HUMBOLDT. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 



BY E, C. OTTK. 



Natures rero rerum vis atquemajestasin omnihnu momentis fide caret, si gufs modopaite* 

 ejua ac non totam complectatnr animo. Plin., Hist. Nat., lib. m. c. I. 



VOL. I. 



LONDON: 



GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN, 



AND NEW YORK. 



1893. 



