A 

 COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



OP A 



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UHVERSE, 



ET 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



TRANSLATED FROM TTIE GERMAN, 



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



Naturse vero rerum vis atque majestus in omnilma momentis fide caret, si quis modo partes 

 ejus ac non totain complectatur aniiao.riiu., Hist. Nat,., lib. vii. c. 1. 



VOL. IV. 



LONDON : 

 HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 



1852. 



