Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 37: October, 1839
Art. I. - Meteorological Observations during a Residence in Colombia, between the Years 1820 and 1830. By Colonel Richard Wright, Governor of the Province of Loxa, and Confidential Agent of the Republic of the Equator, &c. &c.
If the materials of science could be gathered only by the scientific, the following collection of observations would be a useless labor; but it frequently happens that, in distant countries, the opportunity of observing natural phenomena falls to the lot of those very ill fitted in most respects to profit by it. The genius of Humboldt, like an incantation of science, descends upon the New World but once in a series of ages. The most that can be done by an ordinary observer, is to offer his mite, - a single stone towards the pyramid of knowledge, - in the hope that he may casually prove useful; and with such humble pretensions can scarcely be deemed importunate.
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