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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... means of arti- ficial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that mighty growth of vegetable forms , which singularly characterize the tropical cli- mates . It is to the waters which descend from the lofty ...
... means of arti- ficial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that mighty growth of vegetable forms , which singularly characterize the tropical cli- mates . It is to the waters which descend from the lofty ...
Pàgina 11
... means to arrest their progress ; the dense and irresistible mass continues to move onward , and soon baffles every attempt to check its course . Whole provinces which , at their entrance , are covered with rich har- vests and brilliant ...
... means to arrest their progress ; the dense and irresistible mass continues to move onward , and soon baffles every attempt to check its course . Whole provinces which , at their entrance , are covered with rich har- vests and brilliant ...
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... means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended between herself and Rome the scales of universal empire . In that grand struggle Car- thage sunk amid a blaze of expiring glory ; while Egypt ...
... means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended between herself and Rome the scales of universal empire . In that grand struggle Car- thage sunk amid a blaze of expiring glory ; while Egypt ...
Pàgina 16
... to travelling ; and his narrative is al- most entirely the record of what he saw and heard during his various peregrinations . By means of a long stay in Egypt , and an intimate communication with 6 16 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
... to travelling ; and his narrative is al- most entirely the record of what he saw and heard during his various peregrinations . By means of a long stay in Egypt , and an intimate communication with 6 16 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
Pàgina 29
... ; but , since they supplied this rela- tion , they must by some means have reached home . Herodotus concludes this great river to be the Nile flowing from the westward ; while Major Rennel conceives it ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA . 29.
... ; but , since they supplied this rela- tion , they must by some means have reached home . Herodotus concludes this great river to be the Nile flowing from the westward ; while Major Rennel conceives it ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA . 29.
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