Library of 19^th Century Science:
The Golden Age of Geology



COSMOS:


A SKETCH

of

A PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSE.


BY

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.


Translated from the German by

E. C. OTTÉ

In Four Volumes.

VOL. IV




New York:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS

1858.

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