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

by Alexander von Humboldt

[IZ]. Compare Abert’s Examination of New Mexico, in the Documents of Congress, No. 41, pp. 489 and 581–605, with my Essai pol., t. ii. pp. 241–244.

[JA]. Fossil remains of this gigantic antediluvian tortoise are now in the British Museum.—Ed.

[JB]. The weight of the lower branches bends them to the ground, so that a single tree forms a hemispherical mass of verdure sometimes 150 feet in diameter.—Ed.

[JC]. Actes de la Société Helvétique, 1843, p. 324.

[JD]. Claudio Gay, Historia fisica y politica de Chile, Zoologia, 1844, p. 91.

[JE]. Compare my Asie centrale, t. iii. p. 262, with Hooker, Journal of Botany, vol. i. 1834, p. 327, and the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. xvii. 1834, p. 380.

[JF]. Recueil d’Observ. astron., t. i. Intr. p. lxxii.

[JG]. Voyage à l’Equateur, 1751, p. 184.

[JH]. Vocabulario de la Lengua general de todo el Peru llamada Lengua Quichua ó del Inca, Lima, 1608.

[JI]. See the word in Juan de Figueredo’s vocabulary of Chinchaysuyo words appended to Diego de Torres Rubio, Arte, y Vocabulario de la Lengua Quichua, reimpr. en Lima, 1751, fol. 222, b.