BY
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.
TRANSLATED BY MRS. SABINE.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER ROW; AND
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1849.
Wilson and Ogilvy, Skinner Street, Snowhill, London.
| PAGE | |
| Physiognomy of Plants | 3 |
| Annotations and Additions | 33 |
| Postscript on the Physiognomic Classification of Plants | 205 |
| On the Structure and Mode of Action of Volcanos, in different Parts of the Globe | 214 |
| Annotations and Additions | 243 |
| The Vital Force, or the Rhodian Genius | 251 |
| Note | 259 |
| The Plateau of Caxamarca, the Ancient Capital of The Inca Atahuallpa, and the First View of the Pacific Ocean, from the Crest of the Andes | 267 |
| Annotations and Additions | 303 |
| General Summary of the Contents of the Second Volume | 327 |
| Index | 341 |
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ASPECTS OF NATURE
IN
DIFFERENT LANDS AND DIFFERENT CLIMATES.
When the active curiosity of man is engaged in interrogatingNature, or when his imagination dwells on the wide fields oforganic creation, among the multifarious impressions whichhis mind receives, perhaps none is so strong and profound asthat of the universal profusion with which life is everywheredistributed. Even on the polar ice the air resounds withthe cries or songs of birds, and with the hum of insects.Nor is it only the lower dense and vaporous strata of theatmosphere which are thus filled with life, but also the higherand more ethereal regions. Whenever Mont Blanc or the