Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, 1830 - 503 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... banks , and lay the surrounding country under water , or at least afford the means of arti- ficial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that mighty growth of vegetable forms , which singularly characterize ...
... banks , and lay the surrounding country under water , or at least afford the means of arti- ficial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that mighty growth of vegetable forms , which singularly characterize ...
Pàgina 6
... bank , strike root and grow ; hence the original plant , spreading farther and farther , forms over the stream a species of natural arcade . These mighty trees do not stand alone , but have their interstices filled up by numberless ...
... bank , strike root and grow ; hence the original plant , spreading farther and farther , forms over the stream a species of natural arcade . These mighty trees do not stand alone , but have their interstices filled up by numberless ...
Pàgina 18
... bank rose " the hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbour- hood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost ...
... bank rose " the hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbour- hood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost ...
Pàgina 21
... banks of the Thermodon . They did not , like these last , positively exterminate or expel the male sex from their confines ; but , reserving to them- selves all the high cares of war and government , employed their lords in keeping the ...
... banks of the Thermodon . They did not , like these last , positively exterminate or expel the male sex from their confines ; but , reserving to them- selves all the high cares of war and government , employed their lords in keeping the ...
Pàgina 23
... banks , and spread like a sea over Lower Egypt . Some of the hypotheses formed to account for this inundation deserve to be noticed . The most prevalent opinion ascribed it to the Ete- sian winds blowing from the north periodically ...
... banks , and spread like a sea over Lower Egypt . Some of the hypotheses formed to account for this inundation deserve to be noticed . The most prevalent opinion ascribed it to the Ete- sian winds blowing from the north periodically ...
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