Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and ZoologyOliver & Boyd, 1830 - 492 pàgines |
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... produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has provided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season , when , amidst the blaze of lightnings and the noise of thunder which rends the sky , Heaven seems to ...
... produces a desolation so dreadful , Nature has provided suitable remedies . Every country under this latitude has its rainy season , when , amidst the blaze of lightnings and the noise of thunder which rends the sky , Heaven seems to ...
Pàgina 21
... produces , perhaps beyond any other part of the world , that luxuriant growth , and those gigantic vegetable forms , which distinguish the equatorial regions . The baobab , or great calabash , appears to be the most enormous tree on the ...
... produces , perhaps beyond any other part of the world , that luxuriant growth , and those gigantic vegetable forms , which distinguish the equatorial regions . The baobab , or great calabash , appears to be the most enormous tree on the ...
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... produces as many thousands . These ants are far from being of the same harmless description as the corresponding insects of this quarter of the world . On finding their way into a house they devour every thing , clothes , furniture ...
... produces as many thousands . These ants are far from being of the same harmless description as the corresponding insects of this quarter of the world . On finding their way into a house they devour every thing , clothes , furniture ...
Pàgina 29
... producing the first elements of learning and abstract research ; the first approach to alphabetical writing by ... produced by it ; by means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended between ...
... producing the first elements of learning and abstract research ; the first approach to alphabetical writing by ... produced by it ; by means of which she rose to such a degree of power as enabled her to hold long suspended between ...
Pàgina 35
... there was no correspondence in the periods ; observing also , that those winds blew up many other rivers without producing a similar effect . The philosophers of Memphis , it seems , followed even by AMONG THE ANCIENTS . 35.
... there was no correspondence in the periods ; observing also , that those winds blew up many other rivers without producing a similar effect . The philosophers of Memphis , it seems , followed even by AMONG THE ANCIENTS . 35.
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