COSMOS: 



SKETCH 



OF A 



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



VOL. II. 



*c nn Mam complcctatur anino.-Pw. H. N. lib. . Tl. 



TRANSLATED UNDEE THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF 



LIEUT.-COL. EDWAED SAEINE, B.A., E K.S E c.E.S. 



LONDON! 



PRINTED POB 



LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 



TATEBNOSTEH BOW ; AND 



JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 

 1849. 



