COSMOS: 



SKETCH 



OF A 



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OP THE UNIVERSE, 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



I 



VOL. IV. PART I. 



Natures vero rerum vis atquemajestas in omnibus momentisfide caret, si guis modo 

 varies ejus ac non totam complectatur animo.Pmy. H. N. lib. vii. c. 1, 



TRANSLATED T7NDEB THE SUPEBINTEKDENCE OF 



MAJOE-GEKEEAL EDWAED SABINE, E.A., D.C.L. 



V.P. AND TREAS. R.S. 

 CHEVALIEB OP THE ROYAL PBUSSIAN ORDER "pour le mtrite" IN SCIENCE. 



LONDON: 

 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS: 



AND 



JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 



> 1858. 

 UNIVERSITY 



