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 xii
... Sand of the Desert rest ? -Descrip- tion of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and Native Meteoric Iron in the Desert - Observations on the Sand of the Desert - Moving Pillars of Sand - Sand - Wind— How the prevailing Winds affect the Sand ...
... Sand of the Desert rest ? -Descrip- tion of a Trona or Natron Lake - Fulgurite and Native Meteoric Iron in the Desert - Observations on the Sand of the Desert - Moving Pillars of Sand - Sand - Wind— How the prevailing Winds affect the Sand ...
Pàgina xiii
... Sand confounded with Coral , and adduced as a Proof of the very recent Emergence from the Ocean of the Lands supporting them - Geology of the Table - Land properly so called - Account of the Sibilo of the Africans - Geo- logical Survey ...
... Sand confounded with Coral , and adduced as a Proof of the very recent Emergence from the Ocean of the Lands supporting them - Geology of the Table - Land properly so called - Account of the Sibilo of the Africans - Geo- logical Survey ...
Pàgina 3
... sand form a feature so truly alarming . The Great Desert , with the ex- ception of the narrow valley of the Nile , reaches across the entire continent , exhibiting an expanse of burning surface , where for many days the tra- veller ...
... sand form a feature so truly alarming . The Great Desert , with the ex- ception of the narrow valley of the Nile , reaches across the entire continent , exhibiting an expanse of burning surface , where for many days the tra- veller ...
Pàgina 6
... sand , distilling those rich gums that afford an important material of Af- rican commerce . The lotus , a celebrated and clas- sical shrub , the tamarisk , and other small and ele- gant trees , afford agreeable and nutritive ' berries ...
... sand , distilling those rich gums that afford an important material of Af- rican commerce . The lotus , a celebrated and clas- sical shrub , the tamarisk , and other small and ele- gant trees , afford agreeable and nutritive ' berries ...
Pàgina 16
... sand , without a shrub , a blade of grass , or a single object by which human life could be cheered or sup- ported . This appalling boundary , which stopped the victorious career of Cambyses and of Alexander , ar- rested much more ...
... sand , without a shrub , a blade of grass , or a single object by which human life could be cheered or sup- ported . This appalling boundary , which stopped the victorious career of Cambyses and of Alexander , ar- rested much more ...
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