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

by Alexander von Humboldt

[CL]. Compare my investigation regarding the snow-limit on both declivities of the Himalaya in my Asie centrale, t. ii., pp. 435–437; t. iii., pp. 281–326; and in Cosmos, vol. i., p. 337, Bohn’s ed.

[CM]. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. New Series. No. xxviii. p. 287.

[CN]. Hist. gén. des Huns, des Turcs, etc., 1756, t. i. P. 1, p. 217, P. 2, pp. 111, 125, 223, 447.

[CO]. See Klaproth, Asia Polyglotta, pp. 183, 211; Tableaux Historiques de l’Asie, pp. 102, 109.

[CP]. See Kalm’s Reise, Th. iii. p. 416.

[CQ]. Archæologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts published by the Society of Antiquarians of London, vol. viii. 1787, p. 304.

[CR]. Relat. hist. t. iii. p. 155.

[CS]. Chronica del Peru, P. 1, cap. 87. (Losa con letras en los edificios de Vinaque.)

[CT]. Origen de los Indios, 1607, lib. iii. cap. 5, p. 258.

[CU]. Navarrete, Viages de los Españoles, t. i. p. 67.