AUTHORS AND WORKS QUOTED. 263 



Gomara. History of the Conquest of Mexico, xiii, 138, 

 287, 298, 339, 381, 395 5 xiv, 16 5 General Chro- 

 nicle of the Indies, xiii, 220. 



Grosier. General History of China, xiii, 341. 



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Hager. Explanation of an Oriental Zodiac, xiii, 362, 366 ; 

 xiv, 241 ; Memoir on the Ciphers of China, xiv, 

 120 j Monument of Yu, xiv, 244. 



Hamilton. Catalogue of the Sanskrit MSS. of the Imperial 

 Library, xiii, 228, 229 ; xiv, 16. 



Hammer. Mines of the East, xiv, 223. 



Hermann. Mythology of the Greeks, xiv, 15. 



Herodotus. His report on the Pyramids of the Lake 

 Moeris, xiii, 84 j his description of the Temple of 

 Belus at Babylon, 98 ; of the Tumulus of Ninus, 

 102 j his observation on the names of the days of 

 the week, 360 ; on the four apparent changes 

 which have taken place in the position of the rising 

 and setting Sun, xiv, 31 ; on the Intercalation in 

 use among the Greeks, 129 5 on the Calendar of the 

 Egyptians, 236. 



Hervas. Arithmetic of all known Nations, xiv, 115 and 

 following. 



Hesiod. Works and Days, xiv, 31. 



Hipparchus. Commentary on Aratus, xiv, 242, 243. 



Homer. Hymn to Mercury, xiii, 226. 



Hug. On the Invention of Letters, xiv, 222. 



Humboldt (Alexander de). Tableaux de la Nature, xiii, 343 5 

 Description of Cotopaxi, 124 j on the carnivorous 

 quadrupeds of Mexico, 343 5 Essay on the primi- 

 tive Population of Mexico, in the Journal of Berlin, 

 288 j Political Essay on the kingdom of New Spain, 



