ASPECTS OF NATURE, IN DIFFERENT LANDS AND DIFFERENT CLIMATES; WITH Scientific Elucidations. BY ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. TRANSLATED BY MRS. SABINE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1849. Wilson and Ogilvy, Skinner Street, Snowhill, London. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE PHYSIOGNOMY OF PLANTS 3 Annotations and Additions 33 Postscript on the Physiognomic Classification of Plants 205 ON THE STRUCTURE AND MODE OF ACTION OF VOLCANOS, IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE GLOBE 214 Annotations and Additions 243 THE VITAL FORCE, OR THE RHODIAN GENIUS 251 Note 259 THE PLATEAU OF CAXAMARCA, THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF THE INCA ATAHUALLPA, and the First View of the Pacific Ocean, from the Crest of the Andes 267 Annotations and Additions 303 General Summary of the CONTENTS of the Second Volume 327 INDEX 341 ASPECTS OF NATURE IN DIFFERENT LANDS AND DIFFERENT CLIMATES. PHYSIOGNOMY OF PLANTS.