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Humboldt and Fremont

Jahr

1856

Ort

Wilmington, Ohio

Nachweis

in: The Clinton Republican 18:38/920 (8. August 1856), [o. S.].

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen; Fußnoten mit Asterisken.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.14
Dateiname: 1851-Colonel_Fremont-17-neu

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Humboldt and Fremont.

Among the scientific honors paid to Col.Fremont, as a pioneer of American discovery,certainly not the least notable, was that con-ferred by the King of Prussia, in “the greatGolden Medal of Progress in the Sciences.”—The manner of its communication added a rarevalue to the gift. It was sent with a mostcomplimentary letter to Baron Humboldt, whotook occasion to add the warmest expressionsof his own personal respect and admiration.—As this letter has apparently been overlookedin the notices recently made of Fremont by thepress, we avail ourselves of the advance sheetsof the new biography in the course of publica-tion by Derby & Co., of this city, to lay it be-fore our readers. One sentence of Humboldt’sletter we have marked in italics; it was a con-scientious tribute paid to the Senator then; itis highly significant of Fremont’s “friendshipto liberty,” and to the “progress of intelligence”now.The following is the English translation ofBaron Humboldt’s letter:“To Col. Fremont, Senator—It is veryagreeable to me, sir, to address you these linesby my excellent friend, our Minister to theUnited States, M. de Gerolt. After havinggiven you, in the new edition of my “Aspectsof Nature,” the public testimony of the admi-ration which is due to your gigantic labors be-tween St. Louis, Mo. and the coasts of theSouth Sea, I feel happy to offer you, in thisliving token, (dans de petit signe de vie,) thehomage of my warm acknowledgement. Youhave displayed a noble courage in distant ex-peditions, braved all the dangers of cold andfamine, enriched all the branches of the nat-ural sciences, illustrated a vast country whichwas almost entirely unknown to us.“A merit so rare has been acknowledged bya sovereign warmly interested in the progressof physical geography; the King orders me tooffer you the grand golden medal destined tothose who have labored at scientific progress.I hope that this mark of the Royal good willbe agreeable to you at a time when, upon theproposition of the illustrious geographer, Chas.Ritter, the Geographical Society at Berlin hasnamed you an honorary member. For my-self, I must thank you particularly also for thehonor which you have done in attaching myname and that of my fellow laborer and inti-mate friend, Mr. Bonpland, to countries neigh-boring to those which have been the objectof our labors. California which has so noblyresisted the introduction of Slavery, will beworthily represented by a friend of Libertyand of the progress of intelligence.

“Accept, I pray you, Sir, the expression ofmy high and affectionate consideration:Your most humble and obedient servant,A. A. HUMBOLDT.”

“Sans Souci, Oct. 7, 1850.

On the envelope was thus addressed:‘To Colonel Fremont, Senator.‘With the great Golden Medal*‘For progress in the Sciences.‘Baron Humboldt.’The following is the public testimony of theBaron’s admiration of the gigantic labors of Fre-mont, referred to in the letter, as contained inthe new or third edition of his “Aspects ofNature,” and which, as a reference, becomesa natural appendant to the letter:“Fremont’s map and geographical investi-gations comprehend the extensive region fromthe the junction of Kansas river with the Mis-souri to the Falls of Columbia, and to the Mis-sions of Santa Barbara and Puebla de los Ang-elos, in New California; or a space of 28 de-grees of longitude, and from the 34th to the45th parallel of latitude. Four hundred pointshave been determined hyposometrically bybarometric observation, and, for the most part,geographically by astronomical observations;so that a district which, with the windings ofthe route, amounts to 3,600 geographical milesfrom the mouth of the Kansas to Fort VanCouver and the shores of the Pacific, (almost720 miles more than the distance from Mad-rid to Tobolsk,) has been represented in pro-file, showing the relative heights above thelevel of the sea.“As I was, I believe, the first person whoundertook to represent, in geognostic profile,the form of entire countries—such as the Ibe-rian Peninsula, the highlands of Mexico, andthe Cordilleras of South America, (the semi-perspective projections of a Siberian travelerthe Abbe Chappe, were founded on mere andgenerally ill-judged estimations of the fall ofthe rivers,)—it has given me peculiar pleasureto see the geographical method of representingthe form of the earth in a vertical direction, orthe elevations of the solid portion of our planetabove its watery covering, applied on so granda scale as has been done in Fremont’s map.

* The following is the description of themedal.“Of fine gold, massive, more than doublethe size of the American double eagle, and ofexquisite workmanship. On the face is themedallion head of the King, Frederic Williamthe Fourth, surrounded by figures emblemati-cal of Religion, Jurisprudence, Medicine, andthe Arts. On the reverse, Apollo, in thechariot of the Sun, drawn by four high-met-taled, plunging horses, traversing the zodiac,and darting rays of light from his head.”

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