Footnote RQ:
Compare also the critique on the acceptation of special vital forces
in Schleiden’s _Botanik als inductive Wissenschaft_, part i. pp. 60,
and the lately published and admirable treatise of Emil du
Bois-Reymond, _Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität_, vol. i.
pp. xxxiv–1.
Footnote RR:
_Translation._—“From the Province Anti the Montañas of the Antis
received their name. Antisuyu signified the eastern direction, and for
that reason the name Anti was given to all that part of the great
Cordillera of Sierra Nevada which runs along the east of Peru, to
denote that it was situated in the east.” (_Commentarios Reales_, pt.
i. pp. 47, 122.)—ED.
Footnote RS:
See my _Treatise on the Quina Woods_, inserted in the _Magazin der
Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Jahrg._ i. 1807, s.
59.
Footnote RT:
_Histoire de l’Acad. des Sciences, année 1738._ Paris, 1740, p. 233.
Footnote RU:
I have given a drawing of it in the _Vues des Cordillères_, pl. xvii.;
see also Cieça, cap. 44, P. i. p. 120.
Footnote RV:
_Translation._—“The road of the Sierras is wonderful to behold; for
truly, throughout all Christendom, there are not to be seen such
beautiful roads on such rugged ground, and, for the most part they are
paved.”
Footnote RW:
See _Vues des Cordillères et Monumens des peuples indigènes de
l’Amérique_, ed. in 8vo. t. ii. pp. 220–267.
Footnote RX:
Joaquin Acosta, _Compendio historico del Descubrimiento de la Nueva
Granada_, 1848, pp. 188, 196, 206, and 208; _Bulletin de la Société de
Géographie de Paris_, 1847, p. 114.
Footnote RY:
_Journal of a Residence in Columbia_, 1825, vol. ii. p. 390.
Footnote RZ:
_Historical Researches on the Conquest of Peru_, 1827, p. 397.
Footnote SA:
Prescott’s _Conquest of Peru_, vol. i. p. 332.
Footnote SB:
See Garcilaso, lib. viii. cap. 2; also Joaquin Acosta, p. 189.
Footnote SC:
See Humboldt, _Recueil des Observ. Astron._ vol. ii. pp. 309–359.
Footnote SD:
_Journal du Voyage fait à l’Equateur_, 1751, p. 186.
Footnote SE:
Pingré, _Cométographie_, t. i. p. 496; and Galle’s _Verzeichniss aller
bisher berechneten Cometenbahnen_, in Olbers’ _Easiest method of
calculating the course of a Comet_, 1847, p. 206.
Footnote SF:
Mädler’s _Astronomie_, 1846, p. 307; also Schnurrer’s _Chronik der
Seuchen in Verbindung mit gleichzeitigen Erscheinungen, 1825,_ part
ii. p. 82.
Footnote SG:
_Commentaries reales de las Incas_, parte ii. 1722, pp. 27, 51.
Footnote SH:
_Historia de las Indias_, 1533, p. 67. See my _Essai Politique sur la
Nouvelle Espagne_, ed. 2, t. iii. p. 424.
Footnote SI:
See the _Essai politique_, t. iii. p. 371, 377; and also Joaquin
Acosta’s _Descubrimiento de la Nueva Granada_, 1848, p. 14.
Footnote SJ:
Prescott’s _Conquest of Peru_, vol. i. pp. 464–477.
Footnote SK:
Relation hist., t. iii. pp. 703, 705, 713.
Footnote SL:
Raleigh, _The Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of
Guiana, performed in 1595_. Edition published by Sir Robert
Schomburgk, 1848, pp. 119 and 137.
Footnote SM:
_Examen critique de l’histoire de la Géographie du Nouveau Continent
et des progrès de l’Astronomie nautique aux 15me et 16me siècles_, t.
i. p. 349.
Footnote SN:
Peter Martyr’s _Epist._ dxl. p. 296.
Footnote SO:
Joaquin Acosta, _Compendio hist. del Descubrimiento de la Nueva
Granada_, p. 49.
Footnote SP:
_Vida del Almirante por Don Fernando Colon_, cap. 90.
Footnote SQ:
See my _Atlas géographique et physique de la Nouv. Espagne_, pi. iv.
and _Atlas de la Relation historique_, pl. xxii. xxiii.; also my
_Voyage aux regiones équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent_, t. iii. pp.
117–154, and _Essai politique sur la royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne_,
t. i. 2nd ed. 1825, pp. 202–248.
Footnote SR:
_Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soc. of London for the year
1830_, pp. 59–68.
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