The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-29

on June %, 500, nearly 5000 feet higher than
Condamine was able to carry his inftruments.
They Attended TO 3oS6 totes elevation above
the level of the fca, the blood tarting from their
eyes, lips and gums. An opening, of so totes
deep, and very wide, prevented them from
reaching the top, from which they were only
diitant 81 totes.
1t was at Quito that Mr.. Humboldt received
letter from the national intitute of France, in
forming him that captain Baudin had proceed
ed by the Cape of Good Hope, and that there
was no longer any hope of joining him.
After having examined the country over
turned by the earthquake of Robamba, in 1897,
they pailed by the Andes of Ahuay to CuenZa.
The deiire of comparing the Cinchonas difco-
vered by Mr.. Nuts, at Santa Fe de Bogota, and
with thofe of Popayan, and the cufpa and cuff
pare of New Andalutia, and of the river Caro-
nj (named faliely Cortex Anguttura) with the
Chichonas of Loxa and Peru, they preferred de-
Waiting from the beaten track from CuenZa TO
Lima but they pafied with immenfe difficult
ties in the carriage of their inftruments and col
| lections, by the foreit (Paramo) of Saragura to
Loxa, and from thence TO the province of Saen
de Bracamoros. They had to crofs thirty five
times, two DAYS, the river Guancabamba, 70
dangerous for its fudden frefhes. They faw the
ruins of the fuperb Ynga road comparable to
the fineft roads in France, and which went upon
| the ridge of the Andes from Cufco to the AZ
fuay, accommodated with fountains and Ia
verns.
They defended the river Chamaya, which
led them into that of the Amazones, and they
navigated this lalt river down to the cataraets of
Tomeperda, one of the mott fertile, but one of
the hottef climatesof the habitable globe. From
the Amazone river they returned to the fouth
eait by the Cordera of the Andes to Montar,
| where they found they had pafled the magnetic
equator, the inclination being 0, although at fe-
| ven degrees of fouth latitude. They vifted the
| mines OF Hualguayoc, where native iilver is
| found at the height of 5000 totes. Some of
the veins of thefe mines contain petrfcd fhes,
and which. with thofe of Pafco and Huanta-
| Jayo, are actually the richeit of Peru. From
Caxamarca they defended to Truxillo, in the
neighbourhood of which are found the ruins of
| the immenfe Peruvian city, Manfiche.
1t was on this weitern deficient of the Andes
| that the three voyagers, for the firt time, had
the pleature of fleeing the Pacific Ocean. They
tolloYed its barren lides, formerly watered by
the canals of the Yngas at Santa Guerma, and
Lima. They remained fome months in this in
tereiting capital of Peru, of which the inhabi-
tants are dittinguiihed by the vivacity of their
genius, and the lberality of their ideas.
Mr.. Humboldt had the good fortune to OBJ
ferve the end of the paifage of Mercury over the
fun,s dix, in the port of Callao. He was al
toniihed TO find, at flch diitance from Europe
the mott recent productions in chemitry, ma
thematics, and medicine; and he found great
activity of mind in the inhabitants, who, in eli
mate where it never either rains or thunders,
have been fafely accufed of Incidence.
! From Lima our travellers paifed by fea to
Guayaquil, ituated on the brink of a river,
where the growth of palm tree is beautiful be-
yond defcription. They every moment heard
the rumbling of the volcano of Cotopaxi, which
made an alarming expioiion on the 9th January
1903. They Immediately fet off to vifit it a
fecond time, when the unexpected intelligence
of the fpeedy departure of the frigate Atalanta,
determined them to return, after being feven
days expofed to theareadful attacks of the muf-
quitoes of Babaoya and Ujibar.
They had fortunate paflage, by the Pacific
Ocean, TO Acapulco, the weftern port of the
kingdom of New Spain, famous for the beauty
ofits harbor, which appears to have been formed
by earthquakes, for the mifery Gifts inhabitants
and for its climate, which is equally hot and
| unhealthy.
Mr.. Humboldt had originally the intention
| to remain only few months in Mexico, and to
hatten his return to Europe his voyage had al
ready been too much protracted, his inftrumentS,
particularly the cbronometers, began to be out
of order, and every effort that he made to have
rev ones fent to him proved of no avail add
to this confederation, that the progrefs of fci-
ence is 70 rapid in Europe, that, in journey
llldl iditS i've years great is OF
contemplating the different phenomena under
afpe6ts, which are no longer intereftng at the
| moment of FULFILLING the refult of your labors.
MIR. Humboldt hoped to be in France in Au-
CUFF or September, 1903, but the attractions of
a country, 10 beautiful and 70 varied, as is that
of the kingdom of New Spain, the great hof-
pitality of its inhabitants, and the fear of the
yellow fever Il 70 fatal, from June to November,
for thofe who come from the mountainous part
of the country, led him to fay a year in this
kingdom.
Our travellers Attended from Acapulco to
Tafco, celebrated for its mines, as interefting
as they are ancient. They rife, by fnall degrees,
from the ardent valley of Mefcala and PaPagayo,
where the thermometer of Reaumur tands, in
the lhade, conftantly from IS to 81 (95 to lel
Fah.) in a region 6 or 700 totes above the level
of the fea, where you find the oaks, the pines,
and the fougere (fern) as large as trees, and
where the European grains are cultivated.
They paled by Tafco, by Cuerna Vaca, to the
capital of Mexico.-This city of 100000 inha-
bitants, is placed upon the ancient fcite of Tex
ochtitlan, between the lakes of Tezeuco and
Yochim!;!ca, lakes ~iiSiI have ieheDeti fune-
what 6nce the Spaniards have opened the ca
nal of Hucheutoca, in fight oftwo fnow topped
mountains, of which one, Popocatepec, is even
now an active volcano, furrounded by great
number of walks, lhaded with trees, and Indian