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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... Regions , embrace two of the most interesting fields of modern adventure . The brave men who traversed these opposite parts of the world , frequently found their efforts checked , and their career arrested , by the operation of causes ...
... Regions , embrace two of the most interesting fields of modern adventure . The brave men who traversed these opposite parts of the world , frequently found their efforts checked , and their career arrested , by the operation of causes ...
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... .. 368 CHAPTER XVIII . GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF AFRICA Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divi- sions . 1. Geology of the Atlas or Northern Region - Age of the Atlas Mountains . - 2 . Geology of the Sahara.
... .. 368 CHAPTER XVIII . GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF AFRICA Form and Situation of Africa - Its great Natural Regions or Divi- sions . 1. Geology of the Atlas or Northern Region - Age of the Atlas Mountains . - 2 . Geology of the Sahara.
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... Region - Subter- ranean Villages near Tripoli ; in Spain and France - Tertiary Rocks of Benioleed - Soudan , or Black Mountains - Petrified Wood in the Desert - Horrid Consequences of the Slave - trade -Human Skeletons in the Desert ...
... Region - Subter- ranean Villages near Tripoli ; in Spain and France - Tertiary Rocks of Benioleed - Soudan , or Black Mountains - Petrified Wood in the Desert - Horrid Consequences of the Slave - trade -Human Skeletons in the Desert ...
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... regions between the tropics , when not copiously watered , moulder into sand , alternating with a hard and impenetrable stratum of clay . The central wastes of Asia , those of Arabia and of Sindetic Indostan , though inferior to those ...
... regions between the tropics , when not copiously watered , moulder into sand , alternating with a hard and impenetrable stratum of clay . The central wastes of Asia , those of Arabia and of Sindetic Indostan , though inferior to those ...
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... distinguish the equa- torial regions . The baobab , or great calabash , ap- pears to be the most enormous tree on the face of the earth . Adanson assures us , that the circumfe- rence is sometimes equal to thirteen fathoms , as mea-
... distinguish the equa- torial regions . The baobab , or great calabash , ap- pears to be the most enormous tree on the face of the earth . Adanson assures us , that the circumfe- rence is sometimes equal to thirteen fathoms , as mea-
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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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