text:  As we have set out in this article with placing Humboldt at the head of modern travellers and much above any that Great Britain has produced and assigned as the main reason of this superiority the exclusive and limited range of objects on which the attention of our youth is fixed at our great universities we shall in justice to Oxford and Cambridge present the reader with a specimen of the finest passages from Clarke and Bishop Heber that he may judge for himself on their merit great as it often is when compared with that of the ardent and yet learned German