ine in seven-fold purity. Indeed, the artist is already
in that higher studio among the mountains of Beulah.

A simple sculptured obelisk of sorrow stands over the dust of Colonel
Staunton: his most fitting monument is his own life-work. He was the
very painter Humboldt longed for in his writings--"the artist, who,
studying in nature's great hot-house bounded by the tropics, should add
a new and more magnificent kingdom of nature to art." Colonel Staunton,
true and lovely in his own character, was ever seeking in nature for
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure, and now was
about to add whatsoever things are grand. He was a _Christian_ artist,
in sympathy with such men as Raphael and Leonardo de Vinci. "The
habitual choice of sacred subjects (says Ruskin) implies that the
painter has a natural disposition to dwell on the highest thoughts of
which humanity is capable." No shallow or false person could have
conceived his _Ascension_. Only the highest qualities of the intellect
and heart--a soul already half ascended--could have given such ethereal
lightness to those "two men in white apparel." Only the pure in heart
see God. As we revisit in imagination the spot where he sleeps so well,
we behold, in the calm sublimity of the mountains that surround his
grave, an image of the undisturbed repose of his spirit on the Rock of
Ages.

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX A.

BAROMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA.[188]

[Footnote 188: First published in the _American Journal of Science_ for
September, 1868, to which the reader is referred for other physical
observations. The barometric anomaly, noticed particularly on the Lower
Amazon, was also observed by Herndon, Castelnau, Chandlers, Spruce, and
Wallace.]

+----------+---------+----------+-------+----------+-----------+---------------+
|Locality. |Altitude.|Barometer.|Boiling|Regnault's|Difference.|Other |
| | | | Point.| Equiv. | |Estimates. |
+----------+---------+----------+-------+----------+-----------+---------------+
| | | | deg. | | | |
|Pacific | 0 | 29.930| 212.01| | |_Bar._ of |
| Ocean | | | | | | Visse, 29.904;|
| | | | | | | Boussingault, |
| | | | |