COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



OP A 



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN. 

 BY E. C. OTTE AND B. H. PAUL, Ph. D., F.C.S. 



Naturae vero rermn via atque majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret, si quis modo paites 

 eju3 ac aon totam complectatur auimo. Pliu., Hist. Nat., lib. viL c. 1. 



VOL. IV. 



LONDON: 



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

 AND NEW YORK. 



1892. 



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