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thermometer, and the value of articles of industry 
or commerce, which in the original volumes are ex- 
pressed according to French, Spanish, and Russian 
usage, have been reduced to English equivalents. 
Finally, the Publishers, confident that this abridg- 
ed account of the travels of Humboldt will prove 
beneficial in diffusing a knowledge of the researches 
of that eminent naturalist, and in leading to the 
study of those phenomena which present themselves 
daily to the eye, send it forth with a hope that its 
reception will be as favourable and extensive as that 
bestowed upon its predecessors. 
EDINBURGH, October 1832. 
