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The South Shetland Islands, in the same latitude as the southern half of Norway, possess only some lichens, moss, and a little grass; and Lieutenant Kendall found the bay in which he was at anchor, beginning to freeze at a period corresponding with our 8th of September. Richardson's "Append. to Back's Exped." and Humboldt's "Fragm.
With old attachment and the warmest friendship, your In the same strain is this extract from another letter of Humboldt's, written two or three months later. . . ."'Grace from on high, says Madame de Sevigne, 'comes slowly. I especially desire it for the glacial period and for that fatal cap of ice which frightens me, child of the equator that I am.
The clergy of Christendom have stood as leaders of thought, but to hold this proud position they must abandon the intangible and devote themselves to this world and the people who are alive." Most of Humboldt's time during his middle life was spent at Paris, where he was busily engaged in the herculean task of issuing his splendid books.
Science, however rigid, would not have restrained the ardor of homage to the Author of creative energy and grandeur, bursting forth irrepressibly in scenes where angels would have adored the Great First Cause, and where man can do no less. Humboldt's fame as an observer is founded on a rock which no mortal power can shake.
Superlatives are but inarticulate, after all, and give no pictures even of size any more than do numbers of feet and yards: and yet what else can we do, but heap superlative on superlative, and cry, "Wonderful, wonderful!" and after that, "wonderful, past all whooping"? What Humboldt's self cannot paint, we will not try to daub. The voyagers were in a South American forest, readers.
Spain had discovered America in the gross two hundred years before, but what this country really contained in way of possibilities, Spain had most certainly never discovered. Humboldt's mind had conceived the idea of a Scientific Survey, and in this he was the maker of an epoch.
But who would have expected to find such a depth so near land, at 100 leagues only from the American coast?" "Yes, Bronsfield, there is a great depression," said Captain Blomsberry. "There exists a submarine valley here, hollowed out by Humboldt's current, which runs along the coasts of America to the Straits of Magellan."
I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature; nor do I know one vice or folly which is not equally detestable in both." Mrs. She takes, for instance, from one of Humboldt's letters a much-admired passage on manly character: "Masculine independence of mind I hold to be in reality the first requisite for the formation of a character of real manly worth.
"And the young princess reads off the inscription fluently, setting down M. von Humboldt's ignorance to the account of his politeness.
Out of the midst of these leaves grew the pannicles, or flower-spikes, and the bunches of small, nut-like fruit. Now the strangest part of Humboldt's account was, that this individual tree was known to the Spaniards on their first discovery of the Canary Islands more than four centuries ago and that from that time to the present it has increased scarcely perceptibly in dimensions.
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