Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain - With Physical Sections and Maps Founded on Astronomical Observations and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements #224745

The conclusion of Humboldt's Political Essay on New Spain is now laid before the Public. The Translator in these concluding volumes has continued to convert the weights, measures, and coins of the original, into those used in England, with all the accuracy in his power; but lie has cautiously and perhaps prudently abstained from taking notice of any seeming oversight or inconsistency of M. de Humboldt, occurring to him in the course of translation.