A Letter on the Government of the Cape of Good Hope: And on Certain Events which Have Occurred There of Late Years, Under the Administration of Lord Charles Somerset : Addressed Most Respectfully to Earl BathurstCarpenter, 1827 - Всего страниц: 180 |
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... as blue as indigo . By the way , Neil is the Hindoostanee word for indigo . Ovid says of this river nymph , " Cærulei Crines , Digitique et Crura , Pedesque . " 66 The chief river of Æthiopia is called “ Bahr OF THE NIGER . 7.
... as blue as indigo . By the way , Neil is the Hindoostanee word for indigo . Ovid says of this river nymph , " Cærulei Crines , Digitique et Crura , Pedesque . " 66 The chief river of Æthiopia is called “ Bahr OF THE NIGER . 7.
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... Bahr el Azrek , " or the Blue River . Here , then , is another Nile ; and thus it was that the earlier geographers , in speaking of a large river in Central Africa , called it by the generic name of " Nile ; " while some of the Arabian ...
... Bahr el Azrek , " or the Blue River . Here , then , is another Nile ; and thus it was that the earlier geographers , in speaking of a large river in Central Africa , called it by the generic name of " Nile ; " while some of the Arabian ...
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... utterly over- turned , but , the Garamantica Pharanx , which Ptolemy assigns as one of the sources of the Geir , was transported at least a degree be- • yond the Bahr el Abiad , the Ptolemæan source OF THE NIGER . 31.
... utterly over- turned , but , the Garamantica Pharanx , which Ptolemy assigns as one of the sources of the Geir , was transported at least a degree be- • yond the Bahr el Abiad , the Ptolemæan source OF THE NIGER . 31.
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... Bahr el Abiad , the Ptolemæan source or western branch of the Nile ; so that the Geir must have absolutely run across that branch of the Nile to have got to the Lakes Chelonidæ , in which Ptolemy gives us to understand that the Geir was ...
... Bahr el Abiad , the Ptolemæan source or western branch of the Nile ; so that the Geir must have absolutely run across that branch of the Nile to have got to the Lakes Chelonidæ , in which Ptolemy gives us to understand that the Geir was ...
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... Bahr , " ( which was no doubt the word used by Capt . Clapperton ) in the sense in which it is quite as frequently used as to imply the ocean , replied , that , " he did not himself know , but that he had heard people say 66 66 66 66 it ...
... Bahr , " ( which was no doubt the word used by Capt . Clapperton ) in the sense in which it is quite as frequently used as to imply the ocean , replied , that , " he did not himself know , but that he had heard people say 66 66 66 66 it ...
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