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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... remains of Grecian architecture still attest the fact of this city having been a great and civilized metropolis . Every ancient description , however , represents the native inhabitants of these shores as existing in a state of the most ...
... remains of Grecian architecture still attest the fact of this city having been a great and civilized metropolis . Every ancient description , however , represents the native inhabitants of these shores as existing in a state of the most ...
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... remains . It consisted of an expedition on a very large scale , sent out , about 570 years before the Christian era , for the joint purposes of colonization and discovery , under an admiral named Hanno . He carried with him , in sixty ...
... remains . It consisted of an expedition on a very large scale , sent out , about 570 years before the Christian era , for the joint purposes of colonization and discovery , under an admiral named Hanno . He carried with him , in sixty ...
Pàgina 53
... period . Most of this intelligence , however , has either perished , or still remains locked up in the archives of the Lusi- tanian monarchy . The Portuguese continued to prosecute African discovery till , in PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES . 53.
... period . Most of this intelligence , however , has either perished , or still remains locked up in the archives of the Lusi- tanian monarchy . The Portuguese continued to prosecute African discovery till , in PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES . 53.
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... remains attached in the form of drops , which are as clear and transparent as the finest rock - crystal . The Moorish tribes , to whom these woods belong , break up about the beginning of December from their desert encampments , and ...
... remains attached in the form of drops , which are as clear and transparent as the finest rock - crystal . The Moorish tribes , to whom these woods belong , break up about the beginning of December from their desert encampments , and ...
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... remains of a Gothic abbey , with its niches and ruined staircase , that it required some time to satisfy him that it was composed wholly of natural stone . The crossing of the rivers , now swelled to a con- siderable magnitude , was ...
... remains of a Gothic abbey , with its niches and ruined staircase , that it required some time to satisfy him that it was composed wholly of natural stone . The crossing of the rivers , now swelled to a con- siderable magnitude , was ...
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