Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: With Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyJ. & J. Harper, 1846 - 359 pàgines |
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... covering her with barrenness and deso- lation . Sometimes it converts the soil into a naked desert , sometimes overspreads it with a noxious excess of animal and vegetable life . The soil , when not watered by copious rains or river ...
... covering her with barrenness and deso- lation . Sometimes it converts the soil into a naked desert , sometimes overspreads it with a noxious excess of animal and vegetable life . The soil , when not watered by copious rains or river ...
Pàgina 15
... covered as with a deluge , and the dry beds of the rivulets are converted into torrents ; yet so intense are the sun's rays , that the moisture thus lavished upon the surface is quickly dried up . Great rivers , which , swollen by the ...
... covered as with a deluge , and the dry beds of the rivulets are converted into torrents ; yet so intense are the sun's rays , that the moisture thus lavished upon the surface is quickly dried up . Great rivers , which , swollen by the ...
Pàgina 20
... covered with rich harvests and brilliant verdure , are left without a leaf or a blade . Even when destroyed by famine or tempest , they cover immense tracts , exhaling the most noxious stench . Yet they may be used as food , and are ...
... covered with rich harvests and brilliant verdure , are left without a leaf or a blade . Even when destroyed by famine or tempest , they cover immense tracts , exhaling the most noxious stench . Yet they may be used as food , and are ...
Pàgina 22
... covered with thick darkness , and left so far behind in all the arts and attainments which exalt and adorn human nature , had at that early period taken the lead in these very particulars of all other nations . It included Egypt and ...
... covered with thick darkness , and left so far behind in all the arts and attainments which exalt and adorn human nature , had at that early period taken the lead in these very particulars of all other nations . It included Egypt and ...
Pàgina 25
... covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neigh- bourhood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost resigned to wild beasts , the Garamantes ...
... covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neigh- bourhood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost resigned to wild beasts , the Garamantes ...
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