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
... produces a desolation so dread- ful , Nature has provided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season , when , amid the blaze of lightnings and the noise of thunders rending the sky , Heaven seems to open ...
... produces a desolation so dread- ful , Nature has provided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season , when , amid the blaze of lightnings and the noise of thunders rending the sky , Heaven seems to open ...
Pàgina 5
... produces , perhaps , beyond any other part of the world , that luxuriant growth , and those gigantic vegetable forms , which distinguish the equa- torial regions . The baobab , or great calabash , ap- pears to be the most enormous tree ...
... produces , perhaps , beyond any other part of the world , that luxuriant growth , and those gigantic vegetable forms , which distinguish the equa- torial regions . The baobab , or great calabash , ap- pears to be the most enormous tree ...
Pàgina 12
... produces as many thousands . These ants are far from being of the same harm- less description as the corresponding insects of this quarter of the world . On finding their way into a house , they devour every thing , clothes , furniture ...
... produces as many thousands . These ants are far from being of the same harm- less description as the corresponding insects of this quarter of the world . On finding their way into a house , they devour every thing , clothes , furniture ...
Pàgina 15
... producing the first elements of learning and abstract science , the first approach to alphabetical writing by ... produces ; by means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended between herself and ...
... producing the first elements of learning and abstract science , the first approach to alphabetical writing by ... produces ; by means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended between herself and ...
Pàgina 24
... producing this effect . The philosophers of Memphis , it seems , followed even by Mela , the great Latin geo- grapher , surmised that the unknown and inaccessible fountains of the Nile lay on the opposite side of the globe , where ...
... producing this effect . The philosophers of Memphis , it seems , followed even by Mela , the great Latin geo- grapher , surmised that the unknown and inaccessible fountains of the Nile lay on the opposite side of the globe , where ...
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