Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: Including the Substance of the Late Dr. Leyden's Work on that Subject, Band 2A. Constable, 1818 |
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Seite 297 - My God, give me this day rice and yams, give me gold and aigris, give me slaves and riches, give me health, and grant that I may be active and swift.
Seite 306 - In his name they rush to battle, and encounter their foes with Spartan intrepidity. One of them said to Mr. Norris, "I think of my king, and then I dare engage five of the enemy myself." He added, "my head belongs to the king, and not to myself; if he please to send for it. I am ready to resign it ; or if it be shot through in a buttle, 1 am satisfied, since it is in his service.
Seite 486 - Corailium nibrum, is fished up in the Red Sea. It grows much slower than the madrepores, and never occurs in such masses. It is found at different depths, and it is remarked, says Professor Jameson, that light exerts a powerful influence on its growth as well as on its colour, the tint being darker in proportion to the deepness of the sea. The Sponges consist of an entirely ramified mass of capillary tubes, and were at one...
Seite 118 - ... with philosophical accuracy. But though the observations of the ancient sages of Thebes and Memphis, engraved on immense masses of granite, have defied the ravages of time, and the still more destructive hand of man, we can only view the characters with regret, and lament that a wise and learned people may utterly perish before the monuments of their power and science have entirely passed away. Egypt is usually divided into Upper and Lower, the latitude of Cairo presenting in our day the line...
Seite 533 - From the Mountains of the Moon the Egyptian Nile takes its rise. It cuts horizontally the equator in its course north. Many rivers come from this mountain and unite in a great lake. From this lake comes the Nile, the most beautiful and greatest of the rivers of all the earth.
Seite 480 - ... insects were driven into, the sea by a tempestuous north-west wind, and were afterwards cast upon the beach, where it is said they formed a bank of three Or four feet high...