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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... Head - Table Mountain - Devil's Peak - To what Class of Rocks do those of the Cape Peninsula belong ? -At what Period did the Cape Rocks rise above the Level of the Sea ? -Vegetables in- crusted with Calcareous Sand confounded with ...
... Head - Table Mountain - Devil's Peak - To what Class of Rocks do those of the Cape Peninsula belong ? -At what Period did the Cape Rocks rise above the Level of the Sea ? -Vegetables in- crusted with Calcareous Sand confounded with ...
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... heads , and thus experience a repeti- tion of its most intense and perpendicular rays . The high- est blessings of this sublunary world , when carried beyond a certain limit , become its deadliest bane . That parent orb , which cheers ...
... heads , and thus experience a repeti- tion of its most intense and perpendicular rays . The high- est blessings of this sublunary world , when carried beyond a certain limit , become its deadliest bane . That parent orb , which cheers ...
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... heads and fathers of the church ; and exhibiting Alexandria and Carthage on a footing with the greatest cities of the empire . While , however , the region along the Nile and the Me- diterranean was thus not only well known , but formed ...
... heads and fathers of the church ; and exhibiting Alexandria and Carthage on a footing with the greatest cities of the empire . While , however , the region along the Nile and the Me- diterranean was thus not only well known , but formed ...
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... rises the long and lofty range of Atlas , whose head is said to remain for ever invisible and wrapped in clouds , and which the natives believe to be the pillar of heaven , -a_creed adopted , 26 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
... rises the long and lofty range of Atlas , whose head is said to remain for ever invisible and wrapped in clouds , and which the natives believe to be the pillar of heaven , -a_creed adopted , 26 ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF AFRICA .
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... heads , throwing themselves prostrate and grovelling on the earth , —a degradation which he had never witnessed in the most despotic courts of the East . Yet justice is admitted to have been most strictly administered , and property to ...
... heads , throwing themselves prostrate and grovelling on the earth , —a degradation which he had never witnessed in the most despotic courts of the East . Yet justice is admitted to have been most strictly administered , and property to ...
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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 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1846 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1832 |
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