...Miss Williams's translation, has this passage: " From the time we entered the torrid zone, we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the Southern sky, which, K we advanced toward the south, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation,...

...headed west from Spain on June 5, 1799. "From the time we entered the torrid zone," he wrote, "we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky which, as we advanced toward the south, opened new constellations to our view." Once the voyage was truly underway, and he...

...when compared with others' descriptions.* * " From the time when we entered the torrid zone, we were never wearied with admiring. every night, the beauty...when on approaching the equator, and particularly on passing from one hemisphere to the other, we ме those stars which we have contemplated from our...

...the pleasure of transcribing the entire passage. ' From the time we entered the Torrid Zone, we were never wearied with admiring, every night, the beauty of the southern sky, which, as we advanced, opened new constellations to our view. We feel an indescribable sensation, when, on approaching the...