Views of nature: or Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation / with scientific illustrations

by Alexander von Humboldt

[CB]. Travels, p. 97.

[CC]. Asie centrale, t. ii. pp. 427, 483.

[CD]. From a letter of Dr. Joseph Hooker, the learned botanist to the last Antarctic expedition, dated Darjeeling, 25th of July, 1848.

[CE]. Asie centrale, t. i. pp. 138, 154, 198; t. ii. p. 367.

[CF]. Compare Turner in the Asiatic Researches, vol. xii. p. 234, with Elphinstone, Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, 1815, p. 95, and Francis Hamilton, Account of Nepal, 1819, p. 92.

[CG]. Recueil d’Observations astronomiques, t. i. p. 73.

[CH]. Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes pour 1830, pp. 320, 323.

[CI]. See Illustration (5), p. 44.

[CJ]. See Lloyd and Gerard, Tour in the Himalaya, 1840, vol. i., pp. 143, 312, and Asie centrale, t. iii., p. 324.

[CK]. Colebrooke, in the Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. vi. p. 411.