COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UMVERSE, 



BY 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, 



BY E. C. OTTE AND W. S. DALLAS, F.L.S. 



Naturae vero rernm vis atque majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret, si quis modo 

 partes ejua ac non totam complectatur animo. Plin., Hist. JVaf., lib. vii., c. 1. 



NEW YORK: 



HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 

 329 & 331 PEARL STREET, 



FRANKLIN SQUARE. 



1859. 



