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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... District - Sierra Leone , ..... .Page 306 CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF AFRICA . Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divisions . - 1 . Geology of the Atlas or Northern Re- gion - Age of the Atlas Mountains . - 2 ...
... District - Sierra Leone , ..... .Page 306 CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF AFRICA . Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divisions . - 1 . Geology of the Atlas or Northern Re- gion - Age of the Atlas Mountains . - 2 ...
Pàgina 8
... districts . In the large and broad rivers of Africa , and through the immense forests which overshadow them , a race of amphibious animals of monstrous form and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not strictly ...
... districts . In the large and broad rivers of Africa , and through the immense forests which overshadow them , a race of amphibious animals of monstrous form and size display their unwieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not strictly ...
Pàgina 26
... districts now surveyed form the whole of Af- rica respecting which the Greeks had obtained any precise and determinate knowledge . It comprised a wide extent of shore , but extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each ...
... districts now surveyed form the whole of Af- rica respecting which the Greeks had obtained any precise and determinate knowledge . It comprised a wide extent of shore , but extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each ...
Pàgina 29
... district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was still unknown in the vast interior of this continent . They passed first the region inhabited by ...
... district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was still unknown in the vast interior of this continent . They passed first the region inhabited by ...
Pàgina 42
... district that is said to have contained gold , the commo- dity for which African commerce was so much prized . This region is described as intersected and overflowed during the rainy season by the branches of the Nile , ( of the Negroes ...
... district that is said to have contained gold , the commo- dity for which African commerce was so much prized . This region is described as intersected and overflowed during the rainy season by the branches of the Nile , ( of the Negroes ...
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