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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... less to endure from that almost total absence of human life , which renders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to sustain in the latter from the fierce , contemptuous , and persecuting character of the people who occupy a great ...
... less to endure from that almost total absence of human life , which renders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to sustain in the latter from the fierce , contemptuous , and persecuting character of the people who occupy a great ...
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... less gigantic than those of the other continents , la- bour under the peculiar disadvantage of extending across the breadth only of Africa . The Andes and the Himmaleh , those stupendous heights of Ame- rica and Asia , as they traverse ...
... less gigantic than those of the other continents , la- bour under the peculiar disadvantage of extending across the breadth only of Africa . The Andes and the Himmaleh , those stupendous heights of Ame- rica and Asia , as they traverse ...
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... less description as the corresponding insects of this quarter of the world . On finding their way into a house they devour every thing , clothes , furniture , food , not even it is said sparing the inmates , who are compelled to make a ...
... less description as the corresponding insects of this quarter of the world . On finding their way into a house they devour every thing , clothes , furniture , food , not even it is said sparing the inmates , who are compelled to make a ...
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... less pleasing auspices : Sataspes , a Persian noble- man , had been condemned by Xerxes to crucifixion on account of some crime of which he had been guilty ; but his mother , by earnest entreaty , obtained a com- mutation of the ...
... less pleasing auspices : Sataspes , a Persian noble- man , had been condemned by Xerxes to crucifixion on account of some crime of which he had been guilty ; but his mother , by earnest entreaty , obtained a com- mutation of the ...
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... . Heeren has lately attempted to prove that Hanno's voyage reached to the mouth of the Gambia , which is less by nearly a third than the course assigned by Major Rennel . C ed towards another object by the arrival of a na-
... . Heeren has lately attempted to prove that Hanno's voyage reached to the mouth of the Gambia , which is less by nearly a third than the course assigned by Major Rennel . C ed towards another object by the arrival of a na-
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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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