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

by Alexander von Humboldt

[GR]. Brevis et admiranda Descriptio regni Guianæ (Norib. 1599), tab. 4.

[GS]. Gumilla, Historia natural, civil y geografica de las Naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco, nueva impr., 1791, pp. 143, 145, 163.

[GT]. See Journal of the Royal Geogr. Society, vol. xii. 1842, p. 175, and Description of the Murichi, or Ita Palm, read in the meeting of the British Association held at Cambridge, June 1845 (published in Simond’s Colonial Magazine).

[GU]. See also Sir Robert Schomburgk’s new edition of Raleigh’s Discovery of Guiana (1848), p. 50.

[GV]. Bernau, Missionary Labours in British Guiana, 1847, pp. 34, 44.

[GW]. Humboldt, Bonpland, et Kunth, Nova genera et species Plantarum, t. i. p. 310.

[GX]. Mosheim, Institut. Hist. Eccles., 1755, p. 215.

[GY]. See my Rélat. hist., t. i. pp. 296, 625; t. ii. p. 161.

[GZ]. Lib. iii. p. 184, Rhod., p. 219, Wessel.

[HA]. Humboldt, Bonpland, et Kunth, Synopsis Plantarum æquinoct. Orbis Novi, t. iii. p. 370.