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COSMOS 



Hensius on the variations of form in the 

 comet of 1744, 102. 



Herodotus, described Scythia as free from 

 earthquakes, 204 ; Scythian saga of the 

 sacred gold, which fell burning from 

 heaven, 115. 



Herschel, Sir William, map of the world, 

 66 ; inscription on his monument at Up- 

 ton, 87 ; satellites of Saturn, 96 ; diam- 

 eters of comets, 101 ; on the comet of 

 1811, 103; star guagings, 150; starless 

 epace, 150, 152 ; time required for light 

 to pass to the earth from the remotest 

 luminous vapor, 154. 



Herschel, Sir John, letter on Magellanic 

 clouds, 85 ; satellites of Saturn, 96 ; or- 

 bits of the satellites of Uranus, 98 ; di- 

 ameter of nebulous stars, 141 ; stellar 

 Milky Way, 150, 151 ; light of isolated 

 starry clusters, 151 ; observed at the 

 Cape, the star 17 in Argo increase in 

 splendor, 153 ; invariability of the mag- 

 netic declination in the West Indies. 181. 



Hesiod, dimensions of the universe, 154. 



Ilevelius on the comet of 1618, 106. 



Hibbert, Dr., on the Lake of I.aach. See 



note by Translator, 218. 

 .Himalayas, the, their altitude, 28; scen- 

 ery and vegetation, 29, 30; tempera- 

 ture, 30, 31 ; variations of the snow-line 

 on their northern and southern decliv- 

 ities, 30-33, 331. 



Hind, Mr., planets discovered by. See 

 Translator's note, 90, 91. 



Hindoo civihzation, its primitive seat, 35, 

 36. 



Hippalos, or monsoons, 316. 



Hippocrates, his erroneous supposition 

 that the land of Scythia is an elevated 

 table-land, 346. 



Hoff, numerical Inquiries on the distri- 

 bution of earthquakes throughout the 

 year, 207. 



Hoftman, Friedrich, observations on earth- 

 quakes, 206, 207 ; on eruption fissures 

 in the Lipari Islands, 238. 



Holberg, his Satire, " Travels of Nic. Klim- 

 ius, in the world under ground." See 

 Translators note, 171, 172. 



Hood on the Aurora, 200, 201. 



Hooke, Robert, pulsations in the tails of 

 comets, 143 ; his anticipation of the ap- 

 plication of botanical and zoological 

 evidence to determine the relative age 

 of rocks, 270-272. 



Ho-tsings, Chinese fire -springs, their 

 depth, 158; chemical composition, 217. 



Howard on the climate of London, 125 ; 

 mean annual quantity of rain in Lon- 

 don, 333. 



Hiigel, Carl von, on the elevation of the 

 valley of Kashmir, 32, 33 ; on the snow- 

 Une of the Himalayas, 331. 



Humboldt, Alexander von, works by, re- 

 ferred to in various notes : 

 Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 



31, 305. 

 Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 28. 

 Ansichten der Natur, 342, 344, 347. 

 Asie Centrale, 28, 31, 33, 115, 158. ISS, 



180, 204, 217, 219, 225, 245, 251, yy-t 

 260, 289, 290, 291, 292, 296, 300, 301, 

 303-306, 320, 323, 324, 330, 331, 334, 

 350, 356. 

 Atlas G6ographique et Physique du 



Nouveau Continent, 33, 249. 

 De distributione Geographic^ Plan- 

 tarum, secundum cceli temperiem, 

 et altitudinem Moutium, 33, 291, 

 324. 

 Examen Critique de I'Histoire de la 

 G§ographie, 58, 180, 181, 227 2i9, 

 292, 307, 308, 310, 316, 356. 

 Essai Geognostique sur le Gisement 



des Roches, 230, 252, 266, 300. 

 Essai Politique sur la Nouvelle Es 



pagne, 129, 240. 

 Essai sur la Geographic des Plantea, 



33, 230, 315. 

 Flora Friburgensis Subterranea, 340, 



346. 

 Journal de Physique, 178, 292. 

 Lettre au Due de Sussex, sur les 

 Moyens propres a perfectionner la 

 connaissance du Magnetisme Ter- 

 restre, 176, 192. 

 Mormmens des Peuples Indigenes de 



I'Amerique, 140. 

 Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, 307. 

 Recueil d'Observations Astronom 



iques, 28, 167, 218, 327. 

 Recueil d'Observations de Zoologie 



et d'Anatomie Compar§e, 232. 

 Relation Historique du Voyage aux 

 Regions Equinoxiales, 113, 119, 123, 

 127, 130, 186, 206, 207, 220, 221, 225, 

 252, 292, 299, 300, 302, 305-307, 314, 

 315, 327, 329, 334, 336. 

 Tableau Physique des Regions Equi 



noxiales, 33, 230. 

 Vues des Cordilleres, 225, 230. 

 Humboldt, Wilhelm von, on the primitive 

 seat of Hindoo civilization, 36 ; sonnet, 

 extract from, 154 ; on the gradual rec- 

 ognition by the human race of the bond 

 of humanity, 358, 359. 

 Humidity, 313, 332-335. 

 Hutton, Capt. Thomas, his paper on the 



snow-line of the Himalayas, 331, 332. 

 Huygens, polarization of light, 52 ; nebu- 

 lous spots, 1,38. 

 Hygrometry, 332, 333 ; hygrometric wind- 

 rose, 333. 



Imagination, abuse of, by half-civiUzed na- 

 tions, 37. 



Imbert, his account of Chinese " fire-- 

 springs," 158. 



Ionian school of natural philosophy, 65, 

 77, 84, 134. 



Isogenic, isoclinal, isodynamic, &c. See 

 Lines. 



Jacqueraont, Victor, his barometrical oh 

 servations on the snow-line of the Him 

 alayas, 32, 331. 



Jasper, its i'crmation, 259-261. 



Jessen on the gradual rise of the coast of 

 Sweden, 295. 



Jorullo, hornitos de, 230. 



