THE 
TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES 
OF 
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT: 
BEING A CONDENSED 
NARRATIVE OF HIS JOURNEYS 
IN THE 
EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF AMERICA, 
AND IN 
ASIATIC RUSSIA; 
TOGETHER WITH 
ANALYSES OF HIS MORE IMPORTANT 
INVESTIGATIONS. 
BY W. MACGILLIVRAY, A. M., 
. 
Conservator of the Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Member of 
the Natural History Societies of Edinburgh and Philadelphia, &c. 
WITH A PORTRAIT OF HUMBOLDT BY HORSBURGH, A MAP OF THE ORINOCO 
BY BRUCE, AND FIVE ENGRAVINGS BY JACKSON, 
SECOND EDITION. 
EDINBURGH: 
OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT; 
AND SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, LONDON. 
MDCCCXXXIII. 
