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_,