A simple sculptured obelisk of sorrow stands over the dust of Colonel Staunton: his most fitting monument is his own life-work. He was the very painter Humboldt longed for in his writings—"the artist, who, studying in nature's great hot-house bounded by the tropics, should add a new and more magnificent kingdom of nature to art." Colonel Staunton, true and lovely in his own character, was ever seeking in nature for whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure, and now was about to add whatsoever things are grand. He was a Christian artist, in sympathy with such men as Raphael and Leonardo de Vinci. "The habitual choice of sacred subjects (says Ruskin) implies that the painter has a natural disposition to dwell on the highest thoughts of which humanity is capable." No shallow or false person could have conceived his Ascension. Only the highest qualities of the intellect and heart—a soul already half ascended—could have given such ethereal lightness to those "two men in white apparel." Only the pure in heart see God. As we revisit in imagination the spot where he sleeps so well, we behold, in the calm sublimity of the mountains that surround his grave, an image of the undisturbed repose of his spirit on the Rock of Ages.
APPENDICES.
APPENDIX A.
Barometrical Measurements across South America.[188]
| Locality. | Altitude. | Barometer. | Boiling Point. | Regnault's Equiv. | Difference. | Other Estimates. |
| Pacific Ocean | 0 | 29.930 | 212.° | Bar. of Visse, 29.904; Boussingault, 29.867. | ||
| Guayaquil | 10 | 29.899 | 211.95 | 29.831 | -.008 | B.P. of Visse, 211.8° |
| Guaranda | 8,840 | 21.976 | Alt. of Visse, 8872; Hall, 8928. | |||
| Arenal | 14,250 | 18.123 | Alt. of Visse, 13,917; Hall, 14,268. | |||
| Mocha | 10,900 | 20.393 | ||||
| Ambato | 8,490 | 22.241 | Alt. of Visse, 8541; Boussingault, 8787. Bar. of Jameson, 22.218. | |||
| Tacunga | 9,181 | 21.693 | Alt. of Visse, 9180; Boussingault, 9384. Bar. of Jameson, 21.700. | |||
| Tiupullo | 11,662 | 19.858 | Alt. of Visse, 11,702. | |||
| Machachi | 9,900 | 21.212 | Alt. of Visse, 9823. | |||
| Quito | 9,520 | 21.530 | 195.8 | 21.485 | -.045 | Alt. of La Condamine, 9596; Humboldt, 9570; Caldas, 8947; Boussingault, 9567; Aguilar,
9496; Visse, 9307; Bureau des Longs., 9540; Tramblay's Ann., 9538; Jameson, 9513. Bar. of La Condamine, 21.404; Humboldt, 21.403; Aguilar, 21.465; Jameson, 21.566. B.P. of Visse, 195.6°; Tramblay, 184.18°. |
| Panecillo | 10,101 | 21.043 | Alt. of Humboldt, 10,244; Aguilar, 10,135. Bar. of Jameson, 21.207. B.P. of Visse, 194.7° | |||
| Pichincha, top | 15,827 | 17.038 | 184.5 | 17.030 | -.008 | Alt. of La Condamine, 15,606; Humboldt, 15,922; Boussingault, 15,676;
Visse, 16,200; Hall, 15,380; Jameson, 15,704. Bar. of Visse, 16.942. |
| Pichincha, crater | 13,300 | 189.2 | 18.672 | Alt. of Visse and Moreno, 18,600. | ||
| Antisana H. | 13,300 | 18.583 | Alt. of Humboldt, 13,465; Boussingault, 13,356. Bar. of Aguirre, 18.573; Jameson, 18.630. | |||
| On Antisana | 16,000 | 16.782 | ||||
| Pinatura | 10,410 | 20.791 | Alt. of Boussingault, 10,348. | |||
| Padregal | 11,860 | 19.817 | ||||
| On Cotopaxi | 12,690 | 19.004 | ||||
| Riobamba | 9,200 | 21.705 | Alt. of Visse, 9157; Boussingault, 9413. | |||
| Cajabamba | 10,918 | 20.512 | Alt. of La Condamine, 11,000. | |||
| Itulcachi | 8,885 | 22.006 | ||||
| Tablon | 10,516 | 20.800 | ||||
| Papallacta | 10,511 | 20.803 | 193.8 | 20.598 | -.205 | |
| Guila | 8,622 | 22.206 | ||||
| Pachamama | 7,920 | 22.751 | ||||
| Pachamama | 7,920 | 22.751 | ||||
| Baeza | 6,625 | 23.793 | ||||
| Cochachimbamba | 4,252 | 25.832 | ||||
| Curi-urcu | 3,247 | 26.746 | ||||
| Archidona | 2,115 | 27.816 | 209.00 | 28.180 | +.364 | |
| Napo | 1,450 | 28.419 | 209.4 | 28.407 | -.012 | |
| Santa Rosa | 1,100 | 28.814 | 210.4 | 28.982 | +.168 | |
| Coca | 858 | 29.022 | 210.65 | 29.127 | +.105 | |
| Mouth of the River Aguarico | 586 | 29.321> | 211.00 | 29.331 | +.010 | |
| Do. River Curaray | 500 | 29.408 | 210.8 | 29.215 | -.193 | |
| Do. River Napo | 385 | 29.526 | 211.4 | 29.566 | +.040 | Alt. at Nauta, by Castelnau, 365. |
| Pebas | 345 | 29.510 | 211.1 | 29.390 | -.120 | Alt. of Herndon, 537. B.P. of Herndon, 211.1°. |
| Loreto | 211.4 | 29.566 | ||||
| San Antonio | 256 | 29.655 | ||||
| Tabatinga | 255 | 29.656 | 211.5 | 29.625 | -.041 | Alt. of Spix and Martius, 670; Azevedo and Pinto, 150; Agassiz, 200. |
| Tunantins | 138? | 29.770 | Alt. of Azevedo and Pinto, 124. | |||
| Ega | 100? | 29.813 | 211.9 | 29.862 | +.049 | Alt. of Herndon, 2052; Azevedo and Pinto, 120. B.P. of Herndon, 208.2°. |
| Manáos | 199? | 29.705 | Alt. of Herndon, 1475; Castelnau, 293; Spix and Martius, 556; Azevedo
and Pinto, 92. B.P. of Herndon, 209.3°; Gibbon, 210.87°; Wallace, 212°.5. | |||
| Serpa | 158? | 29.752 | Alt. of Azevedo and Pinto, 84. | |||
| Obidos | 114 | 29.802 | Alt. of Azevedo and Pinto, 58; Agassiz, 45. | |||
| Santarem | 107 | 29.808 | 211.5 | 29.625 | -.183 | Alt.
of Herndon, 846; Azevedo and Pinto, 50. B.P. of Herndon, 210.5°. |
| Mount Alégre | 83 | 29.834 | ||||
| Gurupá | 38 | 29.890 | Alt. of Azevedo and Pinto, 42. | |||
| Pará | 15 | 29.889 | 211.95 | 29.891 | +.002 |
Alt. of Herndon, 320; Azevedo and Pinto, 35; Dewey, 35. Bar. of Herndon, 29.708; Dewey, 29.941; Orton (reduced to level of river), 29.914. B.P. of Herndon, 211.5°. |
| Atlantic Ocean | -2 | 29.932 | 212.16 | Bar. of Dewey, 29.977. |