In the canon
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
Alexander von Humboldt
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1814
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 350
Thirty horses are driven into a muddy pool on the Venezuelan plains so that the electric eels will spend their charge on them. Two horses drown; Humboldt wades in afterwards, takes the shocks into his own body, and records the sensation with the same care he gives a barometer reading.
The natural sciences are connected by the same ties which link together all the phenomena of nature.
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