. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. h Goethe andSchiller. In 1797 he went, in company withhis brother, Karl Wilhelm, a Prussian ministerof state, to Paris, where he became acquaintedwith Aime Bonpland, a pupil of the medicalschool and botanic garden in Paris. He thenwent to Madrid, and having obtained permissionfrom the crown to travel through the Spanishcolonies in America, immediately sent for hisfriend Bonpland, and sailed with him fromCorunna. They landed at Teneriffe, whe
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world. h Goethe andSchiller. In 1797 he went, in company withhis brother, Karl Wilhelm, a Prussian ministerof state, to Paris, where he became acquaintedwith Aime Bonpland, a pupil of the medicalschool and botanic garden in Paris. He thenwent to Madrid, and having obtained permissionfrom the crown to travel through the Spanishcolonies in America, immediately sent for hisfriend Bonpland, and sailed with him fromCorunna. They landed at Teneriffe, where theyascended to the crater in Pico, in order to ana-lyze the atmospheric air, and to make geologicalobservations. In July they arrived at Cumanain South America. For five years they wereoccupied incessantly in traveling throughtracts of the earth rich in all that could interestthe scientific observer, and till then never scien-tifically described. They explored the regions ofSouth America watered by the Orinoco andthe upper part of the Rio Negro, fully tracingthe connection between the Orinoco and theAmazon; then returned to the coast and sailed. FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. HUMBOLDT for Cuba, where they remained some Cuba in l8oi, they returned to theSouth American continent, sailed up the Magda-lena as far as they could, pursued their routebj land to Popayan and Quito, and thence asfar south as Luna, crossing the Andes no fewerthan five times in the course of their journey,and. besides other mountain ascents, climbingChimborazo (23 June 1802) to an elevationof 10,300 feet, being the highest point of theAndes then reached by man; from Lima theysailed to Guayaquil, and thence to Acapulco,Mexico (January 1803). Some months werespent in examining the city of Mexico and thesurrounding country, and in a visit to the UnitedSlates; and in January 1804, they set sail forEurope, taking Cuba again on their way. On3 Aug. 1804, they arrived at Bordeaux, bri
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