COSMOS: 



A SKETCH 



OF 



A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE. 



ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. I*)!?]- /S 



TRANSLATED TKOM THS GERMAN, 



BY E. C. OTTE. 



Naturae vero rerum via atque majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret, si quis nindo 

 partes ejus ac non totam complectatur animo.— Plin., Hist. Nat., lib. vii, c. 1. 



VOL. III. 



NEW YORK: 



HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 

 329 & 331 PEARL STREET 



FRANKLIN SQUARE. 

 1866. 



