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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... seem to depend chiefly on the circumstance that almost her whole territory is situated within the tropics . The other portions of the earth's surface which lie directly beneath the solar influence consist generally either of sea , or of ...
... seem to depend chiefly on the circumstance that almost her whole territory is situated within the tropics . The other portions of the earth's surface which lie directly beneath the solar influence consist generally either of sea , or of ...
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... seems to open all her windows to pour an unbroken flood upon the earth . The ground is 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 ...
... seems to open all her windows to pour an unbroken flood upon the earth . The ground is 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 ...
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... seem in the production of extraordinary objects , has filled Africa with a wonderful multitude of those animals which ... seems even to make a nearer ap- proach than any other animal to the exercise of reason . It has been taught to make ...
... seem in the production of extraordinary objects , has filled Africa with a wonderful multitude of those animals which ... seems even to make a nearer ap- proach than any other animal to the exercise of reason . It has been taught to make ...
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... seems much more probable that the warm imagination of the Greeks , attracted by the mysterious grandeur of the region , trans- ported thither the creations of their own fancy . Our au- thor , however , makes a positive averment as to ...
... seems much more probable that the warm imagination of the Greeks , attracted by the mysterious grandeur of the region , trans- ported thither the creations of their own fancy . Our au- thor , however , makes a positive averment as to ...
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... seems , followed even by Mela , the great Latin geographer , surmised that the un- known and inaccessible fountains of the Nile lay on the opposite side of the globe , where during our summer it was winter ; consequently , the greatest ...
... seems , followed even by Mela , the great Latin geographer , surmised that the un- known and inaccessible fountains of the Nile lay on the opposite side of the globe , where during our summer it was winter ; consequently , the greatest ...
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