COSMOS: 



SKETCH 



or A 



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OP THE UNIVERSE. 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



VOL. III. 



Xatiirre vero rerum vis atque mrtjestas in omnibus momentisfMe card, si quis modo paries ejits 

 ac non totam complectatur animo. PLIN. H. N. lib. vii. -c. 1. 



TRANSLATED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF 



COLONEL EDWARD SABINE, R.A., V.P. & TUBAS. R.S. 



LONDON: 

 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS ; 



AND 



JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 

 1852. 



