Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeOliver & Boyd, 1844 - 472 pàgines |
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Pàgina 14
... 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 incrusted with Calcareous Sand con- founded with Coral ...
... 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 incrusted with Calcareous Sand con- founded with Coral ...
Pàgina 18
... heads , and thus experience a repetition of its most intense and penetrating rays . The highest blessings of this sub- lunary world , when carried beyond a certain limit , become its deadliest bane ; and that orb , accordingly , which ...
... heads , and thus experience a repetition of its most intense and penetrating rays . The highest blessings of this sub- lunary world , when carried beyond a certain limit , become its deadliest bane ; and that orb , accordingly , which ...
Pàgina 29
... heads and fathers of the church ; and exhibiting Alexandria and Carthage on a footing with the greatest cities which owned the imperial sway . While , however , the region along the Nile and the Mediterranean was thus not only well ...
... heads and fathers of the church ; and exhibiting Alexandria and Carthage on a footing with the greatest cities which owned the imperial sway . While , however , the region along the Nile and the Mediterranean was thus not only well ...
Pàgina 33
... 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 , or perhaps invented , by the Greeks and Romans . Herodotus here stops , frankly owning that ...
... 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 , or perhaps invented , by the Greeks and Romans . Herodotus here stops , frankly owning that ...
Pàgina 54
... heads , throwing themselves prostrate and grov- elling 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 ...
... heads , throwing themselves prostrate and grov- elling 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 ...
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