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PREFACE. 



Finally, the publishers, confident that this abridged 

 account of the travels of Humboldt will prove bene- 

 ficial 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. 



