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and revere him as the great, indeed pre- 
eminently claffic, leader in ideology, or the 
feience of zdeas. I have thought this 
vindication due to him. as. the father of 
Englifw legies and metaphyfics; and I 
pay it the more willingly when I alfo 
contemplate him as the man to whom, 
with Milton and Rouffeau, all ages 
will be indebted for deep, folid, and 
ample. principles .of education ;* the 
great aflerior of our liberties, civil and re- 
ligious. To conclude, I think the Etiays 
of Locke and Hartley may not be unfuit- 
ably compared, in relation to the fcience 
of mind, to the Optics and: Principia of 
Newton, with reference to the jenjible 
univerfe,. And while I think it of im- 
portance that erroneous principles be 
caimly difproved, I think it of at leaf 
equal that juft principles be fteadily main- 
tained. And J feel a pride in the perfua- 
fion, that thofe who have done beft fince 
the days of Locke, and thofe who fhall 
hereatier be moft fuccefsfu] in logical and 
metaphyfical myeftigation, and, in gene- 
yal, in the fearch of fpeculative and prac- 
tical truth, have, -for the moft part, been 
proud, and will be fo, to zcknowledge that 
they were mach indebied to the aid: of 
Locke. . 4 1 Pe . 
att . Care. LorFFr. 
Trofion, May 16, 1805. 
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. For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the TRAVELS between the 
TROPICS of MESSRS. HUMBOLDT aud 
BONPLAND, i# 1799, 1800, rot, 
1802, 1803, and 1804. By J. C. DE- 
LAMETHERIE. oa 
FTER making phyfcal refearches 
for eight years in Germary, Poland, 
England, France, Gwifferland, and Iraly, 
M. Humboldt came to Paris in 1798, 
where the Mufeum of Natural Hiflory af- 
forded him an opporiunity of making a 
voyage round tke warld with Captain 
Baudin. When en the point of fetring 
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out for Havre, .with Alexander-Aimeé . 
_Goujou Bongland, a pupil of the School 
ef Medicine and Garden cf Plants, the 
war which recommenced with Auftria, 
and the want of funds, induced the D1- 
rectory to put off the voyage of Baudin 
till a more favourable occafiort, M. 
Humboldt, who, fince 1792, had con- 
ceived the defign of undertaking, at his 
own expence, a voyage to the tropics, in 
* The late Mrs; Macauley has nobly vin- 
dicated Locke ; and the great.Ch.. Baron 
Gabert compofed aa Abftrattof his Eflay. 
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538. Travels between the Trapics, by Meff. Hambalat & Bonpiand. [July 1, 
order to promote the phyfical {cienceg, 
refolved then to accompany. the men of 
{cience who were deftined for Egypt.— 
The battle of Aboukir having intexrupt- 
ed all dire&t communication with, Alexan- 
dria, his plan was, to take advantage of a 
Swedifh frigate which was to carry the 
conful Sezieldebrant to Algiers, to ac- 
company the caravan thence to Mecca, 
and to proceed to India by Egypt and 
the Perfian Gulph ; but the war, .which 
broke ovt in an unexpected manner in the 
month cf Otober 1798, between France 
and the Barbary Powers, and the troubles 
in the Eaft, prevented M. Humboldt from 
fetting out from Marfeilles, where he 
waited to no purpofe for two months. 
Impatient at this new delay, but always 
firm in the proje&t of joining the expedi- 
tion in Egypt, he fet out for Spain, hop- 
ing he fhould be able te proceed more ea- 
fily under the Spanith flag from Cartha- 
gena to Algiers or Tunis. He tock the 
road to Madrid, through Montpellier, Per- 
pignan, Barcelona, and Valentia ; but 
the news from the Esft became every. day 
more diftrefing. The war there was 
carried on with unexampled fury, and he 
was at Iength obliged to renounce the de- 
fign of going through Egypt to Indoltan. 
A happy concurrence of circumfances 
foon indemnified M. Humboldt for this 
delay. In the. month of March 179, 
the Court of Madrid gianted him #uil 
permifiion to proceed to the Spanith Co- 
lonies in both the Americas, in order to 
make uch refearches as might be ufeful to 
the fciences. His Catholic Majefty even 
deigned to fhow particular intereft for the 
fucce{s of this expedition ; and M. Adum- 
boldt, after refiding fome months at Ma- 
drid and Aranjues, fet out from Europe 
in June 1799, accompanied by his friend 
Bonpland, who unites an extenfiive know- 
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ledge of botany and zoology to that inde- , 
fatigable zeal and love for the feiences 
vhich induce men to fubmit with indiffe- 
rence to every kind of hardfhip. . 
With this friend M. Humboldt travel. 
led for five years, at his own expence; be. - 
tween the tropics, pafling over, by fea 
and land, nearly nine thoufand leagues. 
‘Fhefe two travellers, provided with re-. 
commendations from the Court of Spain, — 
embarked in the Pizarro frigate, at Co- 
runna, for the Canaries. Fhey touched 
at the ifland of Graciefa, near Lancerot- 
ta, and at Teneriff, where they afcended 
to the crater of the Peak, in order ta - 
analyfe the atmofpheric air, and make 
geological obfervations on the bafaltes and 
porphyritic f{chiftt “of - A‘rica. In the 
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