J CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER xxvrr. 



I'ASSAOE FHOM VERA CHUZ TO LLDA AXU PHILADELPHIA, 

 AKD VOYAGE TO EUROPE. 



Departure from Mexico — Passage to Havannah and Philadelphia — 

 Return to Europe — Results of tlie Journeys in America,.- Page 342 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



JOURNEY IN CENTRAL ASIA. 



Qualifications as a Traveller — Great Designs — Invitation by the 

 Emperor of Russia — Uralian Mountains — Ores — Volcanic 

 Phenomena — Geological Observations — The Chinese Frontier 

 — Relations of Plains and Mountain Systems— Depth of the 

 Sea — Climatology — Ethnology — Altaic Mountain Range — Thian 

 Clian — Himalaya System — Lunar Phenomena — Isothermal 

 Zones — Magnetic Currents— Conclusion , S48 



ENGRAVINGS. 



Portrait of Bauon F. H. A. Humboldt,— 7*0 /ace f/ie 



Vignette. 

 N'IGKETTE— Basaltic Rocks and Cascade of Rejila. 



DrajTon-tree of Orotava, Pagi- 41! 



HtiMilwidl's, Route on the Orinoco, ll."} 



.laj^uar, or American Tiger, IIW 



Air-volcanoes of Turbaco, 271 



Costuraca of the Indians of Mcclioacan, 291 



