Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... covering her with desolation . Sometimes it converts the soil into a naked desert , and sometimes overspreads it with a noxious exuberance of vegetation . The land , when not watered by copious rains or the overflowing of rivers , is ...
... covering her with desolation . Sometimes it converts the soil into a naked desert , and sometimes overspreads it with a noxious exuberance of vegetation . The land , when not watered by copious rains or the overflowing of rivers , is ...
Pàgina 19
... covered as with a deluge , and the dry beds of the rivulets are filled with torrents ; yet so intense are the solar rays , that the moisture thus lavished upon the surface is quickly dried up . Great rivers , which , swollen by the ...
... covered as with a deluge , and the dry beds of the rivulets are filled with torrents ; yet so intense are the solar rays , that the moisture thus lavished upon the surface is quickly dried up . Great rivers , which , swollen by the ...
Pàgina 28
... covered with thick darkness , and left so far behind in all the arts and attainments which exalt and adorn human nature , had at that early period taken the lead , in these very particulars , of all other nations . It in- cluded Egypt ...
... covered with thick darkness , and left so far behind in all the arts and attainments which exalt and adorn human nature , had at that early period taken the lead , in these very particulars , of all other nations . It in- cluded Egypt ...
Pàgina 29
... covered with mag- nificent monuments , erected at an era when the faintest dawn of science had not yet illumined the regions of Europe . While Egypt was thus pre - eminent in know- ledge and art , Carthage equally excelled in commerce ...
... covered with mag- nificent monuments , erected at an era when the faintest dawn of science had not yet illumined the regions of Europe . While Egypt was thus pre - eminent in know- ledge and art , Carthage equally excelled in commerce ...
Pàgina 31
... covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbourhood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Nasamones , in a region almost resigned to wild beasts , the Garamantes ...
... covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbourhood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Nasamones , in a region almost resigned to wild beasts , the Garamantes ...
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