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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... immense surface was the subject only of vague report and conjecture . The progress of those discoverers , by whom a very large extent of its interior regions has at length been disclosed , having been accompanied with arduous labours ...
... immense surface was the subject only of vague report and conjecture . The progress of those discoverers , by whom a very large extent of its interior regions has at length been disclosed , having been accompanied with arduous labours ...
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... immense , and abounding even with the most striking and surprising contrasts , yet , on a general view , a certain uniformity , approaching almost to monotony , appears to pervade it . From one end to the other , dreary wastes of almost ...
... immense , and abounding even with the most striking and surprising contrasts , yet , on a general view , a certain uniformity , approaching almost to monotony , appears to pervade it . From one end to the other , dreary wastes of almost ...
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... immense extent . In order to obviate the extreme effects of the tropical sun , which produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has pro- vided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season , when , amid the ...
... immense extent . In order to obviate the extreme effects of the tropical sun , which produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has pro- vided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season , when , amid the ...
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... 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 strictly amphi bious , slowly traverses marshes and swampy grounds , and ...
... 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 strictly amphi bious , slowly traverses marshes and swampy grounds , and ...
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... immense tracts , exhaling the most noxious stench . Yet they may be used as food , and are even relished by certain native tribes . The mosquito and its allies do not spread such a fearful de- solation ; yet by their poisoned and ...
... immense tracts , exhaling the most noxious stench . Yet they may be used as food , and are even relished by certain native tribes . The mosquito and its allies do not spread such a fearful de- solation ; yet by their poisoned and ...
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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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