Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time : with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court, 1832 - 503 pàgines |
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... banks and lay the surrounding coun- try under water , or at least afford the means of arti- ficial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that mighty growth of vegetable forms , which singularly characterize ...
... banks and lay the surrounding coun- try under water , or at least afford the means of arti- ficial inundation , are the principal source of that luxuriant fertility , that mighty growth of vegetable forms , which singularly characterize ...
Pàgina 22
... bank , strike root and grow ; hence the original plant , spreading farther and farther , forms over the stream a species of natural arcade . These mighty trees do not stand alone , but have their interstices filled up by numberless ...
... bank , strike root and grow ; hence the original plant , spreading farther and farther , forms over the stream a species of natural arcade . These mighty trees do not stand alone , but have their interstices filled up by numberless ...
Pàgina 34
... bank rose " the hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbour- hood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost ...
... bank rose " the hill of the Graces , " covered with a profusion of the finest foliage . Such is still the gay and brilliant aspect which the neighbour- hood of Bengazi presents . To the south of the Na- samones , in a region almost ...
Pàgina 37
... banks of the Thermodon . They did not , like these last , positively exterminate or expel the male sex from their confines ; but , reserving to them- selves all the high cares of war and government , em- ployed their lords in keeping ...
... banks of the Thermodon . They did not , like these last , positively exterminate or expel the male sex from their confines ; but , reserving to them- selves all the high cares of war and government , em- ployed their lords in keeping ...
Pàgina 39
... banks , and spread like a sea over Lower Egypt . Some of the hypotheses formed to account for this inundation deserve to be noticed : The most prevalent opinion ascribed it to the Etesian winds , blowing from the north periodically and ...
... banks , and spread like a sea over Lower Egypt . Some of the hypotheses formed to account for this inundation deserve to be noticed : The most prevalent opinion ascribed it to the Etesian winds , blowing from the north periodically 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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