Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 359 pàgines |
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... European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany District Sierra Leone 227 CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF AFRICA . Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divisions.- 1. Geology of the Atlas or Northern Region - Age of ...
... European Colonization - Cape of Good Hope - Albany District Sierra Leone 227 CHAPTER XVII . GEOLOGY OF AFRICA . Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divisions.- 1. Geology of the Atlas or Northern Region - Age of ...
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... Europe . A still huger shape is that of the hippopotamus , or river - horse , fitted alike to stalk on land , to march along the bottom of the waters , or to swim on their surface . He is slow , ponderous , gentle ; yet when annoyed ...
... Europe . A still huger shape is that of the hippopotamus , or river - horse , fitted alike to stalk on land , to march along the bottom of the waters , or to swim on their surface . He is slow , ponderous , gentle ; yet when annoyed ...
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... Europe , and attracting attention by their playful movements , fill with sportive cries all the fo- rests of tropical Africa . The insect race , which in our climate is generally harm- less , presents here many singular and even ...
... Europe , and attracting attention by their playful movements , fill with sportive cries all the fo- rests of tropical Africa . The insect race , which in our climate is generally harm- less , presents here many singular and even ...
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... Europe . While Egypt was thus pre - eminent in science and art , Carthage equally excelled in commerce and in the wealth which it produces ; by means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended ...
... Europe . While Egypt was thus pre - eminent in science and art , Carthage equally excelled in commerce and in the wealth which it produces ; by means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended ...
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... Europe and Asia , and suffer- ing severely from drought ; yet there were a few spots , as Cinyps and the high tracts of Cyrene , which being finely irrigated , might stand a comparison with the richest portions of the globe . Generally ...
... Europe and Asia , and suffer- ing severely from drought ; yet there were a few spots , as Cinyps and the high tracts of Cyrene , which being finely irrigated , might stand a comparison with the richest portions of the globe . Generally ...
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Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1830 |
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