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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... seem to depend chiefly on the circumstance that almost her whole territory is situated within the tropics . The other portions of the earth's surface , which lie directly beneath the solar influence , consist generally either of sea ...
... seem to depend chiefly on the circumstance that almost her whole territory is situated within the tropics . The other portions of the earth's surface , which lie directly beneath the solar influence , consist generally either of sea ...
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... seems to open all her windows to pour an unbroken flood upon the earth . The ground is covered as with a deluge , and the dry beds of the rivulets are converted into tor- rents ; yet so intense are the sun's rays , that the mois- ture ...
... seems to open all her windows to pour an unbroken flood upon the earth . The ground is covered as with a deluge , and the dry beds of the rivulets are converted into tor- rents ; yet so intense are the sun's rays , that the mois- ture ...
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... seem , in the produc- tion of extraordinary objects , has filled Africa with a wonderful multitude of those animals ... seems even to make a nearer approach than any other animal to the exer- cise of reason . It has been taught to make ...
... seem , in the produc- tion of extraordinary objects , has filled Africa with a wonderful multitude of those animals ... seems even to make a nearer approach than any other animal to the exer- cise of reason . It has been taught to make ...
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... seems much more pro- bable , that the warm imagination of the Greeks , at- tracted by the mysterious grandeur of the region , transported thither the creations of their own fancy . Our author , however , makes a positive averment as to ...
... seems much more pro- bable , that the warm imagination of the Greeks , at- tracted by the mysterious grandeur of the region , transported thither the creations of their own fancy . Our author , however , makes a positive averment as to ...
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... 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 during our summer it was winter ; consequently the greatest ...
... 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 during our summer it was winter ; consequently the greatest ...
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