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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Pàgina ix
... District Sierra Leone CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF AFRICA . 227 Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divisions.- 1. Geology of the Atlas or Northern Region - Age of the Atlas Moun tains . - 2 . Geology of the Sahara ...
... District Sierra Leone CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF AFRICA . 227 Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divisions.- 1. Geology of the Atlas or Northern Region - Age of the Atlas Moun tains . - 2 . Geology of the Sahara ...
Pàgina 18
... districts . In the large and broad rivers of Africa , and through the immense forests which overshadow them , a race of amphi- bious animals of monstrous form and size display their un- wieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not ...
... districts . In the large and broad rivers of Africa , and through the immense forests which overshadow them , a race of amphi- bious animals of monstrous form and size display their un- wieldy figures . The rhinoceros , though not ...
Pàgina 31
... districts now surveyed form the whole of Africa respecting which the Greeks had obtained any precise and determinate knowledge . It comprised a wide extent of shore , but extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each ...
... districts now surveyed form the whole of Africa respecting which the Greeks had obtained any precise and determinate knowledge . It comprised a wide extent of shore , but extended a very short distance inland ; being bounded on each ...
Pàgina 33
... district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was still unknown in the vast interior of this continent . They passed first the region inhabited by ...
... district southward of Cyrene . Five young men of distinction formed themselves into an African association , personally to explore what was still unknown in the vast interior of this continent . They passed first the region inhabited by ...
Pàgina 42
... district that is said to have contained gold , the commodity for which African commerce was so much prized . This region is described as intersected and overflowed during the rainy season by the branches of the Nile ( of the Negroes ...
... district that is said to have contained gold , the commodity for which African commerce was so much prized . This region is described as intersected and overflowed during the rainy season by the branches of the Nile ( of the Negroes ...
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