THE

TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES

OF

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT T

BEING

A CONDENSED NARRATIVE OF HIS JOURNEYS IN THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF AMERICA, AND IN ASIATIC RUSSIA: TOGETHER WITH ANALYSES OF HIS MORE IMPORT

ANT 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 MAP OF THE ORINOCO, AND ENGRAVINGS.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, No. 82 CLIFF-STREET,

AND SOLD BY THE BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

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