Alexander Von Humbolt Or What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime
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They passed the lighthouse near Corunna in the afternoon of the 5th of June, and reached towards evening the open, boisterous sea. Who can describe OF BAEON HUMBOLDT. 77 the feelings of Humboldt when, at a late hour of this summer day, he saw the realization of the hopes and wishes which he had nourished for nine years, and in which he had been so frequently disappointed ! what were his thoughts on that evening, about nine o'clock, when he perceived the light from the hut of a fisherman of Sisa...rgo the last visible object of the western coast of Europe- which in the continually increasing distance mingled with the light of the stars which now appeared in the horizon. His and Bonpland's eyes were involuntarily directed to this phenomenon. Hum- boldt observed many years afterwards, in rela- tion to this event : " These impressions can never be obliterated from our memory ! How many memorials of the past are brought before our imagination, by even a single illuminated spot, which appears in the midst of a dark night, alternately above the moving waves, in- dicating the shores of our native land.
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