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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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 confounded 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 confounded with Coral ...
Pàgina 18
... heads , and thus experience a repetition of its most intense and perpendicular rays . The highest blessings of this sublunary world , when carried beyond a cer- tain limit , become its deadliest bane . That parent orb , which cheers and ...
... heads , and thus experience a repetition of its most intense and perpendicular rays . The highest blessings of this sublunary world , when carried beyond a cer- tain limit , become its deadliest bane . That parent orb , which cheers and ...
Pàgina 31
... heads and fathers of the church ; and exhibiting Alexandria and Carthage on a foot- ing with the greatest cities of the empire . While , however , the region along the Nile and the Mediterranean was thus not only well known , but formed ...
... heads and fathers of the church ; and exhibiting Alexandria and Carthage on a foot- ing with the greatest cities of the empire . While , however , the region along the Nile and the Mediterranean was thus not only well known , but formed ...
Pàgina 36
... 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 62
... heads , throw- ing themselves prostrate and grovelling 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 , throw- ing themselves prostrate and grovelling 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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Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1830 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1846 |
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