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a^sd friend,' or, ' My noble youth in age,' or also in this style, ' Caro- 

 line and I are happy, our fate rests in your hands.' He praised 

 Princess Victoria, as being not exactly pretty, but as having pleasing 

 and simple manners, and eyes full of soul." 



ccxx. 



HUMBOLDT TO VAKNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 19th February, 1858. 



You see, dear friend, that in spite of many a little 

 fault-finding of M. d'Avezac's, who has learnt to 

 quote from Malte-Brun, your name's-sake does you 

 much credit. 



But it is' incomprehensible that M. D'Avezac is 

 completely ignorant of a map of Juan de la Cose, of 

 1500, six years before Colon's death, which I privately 

 published in 1830, and of a work in largo quarto, 

 under the title, " History of the Navigator, Chevalier 

 Martin Behaim," by W. Ghillany and Alex. Hum- 

 boldt, 1853, which treats on the origin of the name 

 of " America." 



A. HT. 



Rummaged all through in one night. The noble 

 youth in age, Vecchio della Montagna. 



(Herewith the book, " Considerations Greogra- 

 phiques sur FHistoire du Brezil. Examen critique 

 d'une nouvelle histoire generale du Brezil, par M. 

 Francois Adolphe de Varnhagen. Rapport fait par 

 M. "D'Avezac. Paris, 1857." In octavo.) 



