Personal Narrative

OF TRAVELS

TO THE

EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS

OF THE

NEW CONTINENT,

DURING THE YEARS 1799—1804,

BY

ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT,

AND

AIMÉ BONPLAND.

WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY

ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT,

AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS.

VOL. VII.

30-

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
PATERNOSTER ROW.

1829.

3353.33

SA 877.99.20

W. Pople, Printer, 67, Chancery Lane.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba-The Ha-

vannah-Hills of Guanavacoa, considered in their

geognostical relations-Valley of Los Guines-

Batabano, and Port of Trinidad-The King and

Queen's Gardens

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1

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336

NOTES TO BOOK X.

A-On the Productions and Consumption of Colonial

Produce

Of the Temperature of different Parts of the Torrid

Zone at the Level of the Sea.

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BOOK XI.

CHAPTER XXIX.

Passage from Trinidad of Cuba to Rio Sinu-Car-

thagena-Air Volcanoes of Turbaco-Canal of

Mahates

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