An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798: Including Cursory Observations on the Geology and Geography ... the Natural History of Such Objects as Occurred in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms, and Sketches of the Physical and Moral Characters of the Various Tribes ...G.F. Hopkins, 1802 - 386 páginas |
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... northward along the western coast as far as the mouth of Olifant's river , which is about 210 miles . The first great chain of mountains that runs east and west incloses , between it and the southern coast , an irregular belt of land ...
... northward along the western coast as far as the mouth of Olifant's river , which is about 210 miles . The first great chain of mountains that runs east and west incloses , between it and the southern coast , an irregular belt of land ...
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... northward of the Cape is much more sandy , barren , and thinly inhabited , than to the eastward , in which direction it increases in beauty and fertili- ty with the distance . Such is the general outline of the territory that is ...
... northward of the Cape is much more sandy , barren , and thinly inhabited , than to the eastward , in which direction it increases in beauty and fertili- ty with the distance . Such is the general outline of the territory that is ...
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... northward , in a long un- broken hill of moderate height , is King James's Mount ( the Lion's Rump of the Dutch ) and affords shelter against the westerly winds to ships in Table Bay . It most completely commands every part of the town ...
... northward , in a long un- broken hill of moderate height , is King James's Mount ( the Lion's Rump of the Dutch ) and affords shelter against the westerly winds to ships in Table Bay . It most completely commands every part of the town ...
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... northward . On the more arid and naked parts , consisting of yellow clay and sand , are thrown up many thousands of those cellular masses of earth by a small insect of the ant tribe , to which naturalists have given the name of termes ...
... northward . On the more arid and naked parts , consisting of yellow clay and sand , are thrown up many thousands of those cellular masses of earth by a small insect of the ant tribe , to which naturalists have given the name of termes ...
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... northward , and to which a French naturalist has given the name of the Back - bone of the Earth ; a name , however , that is much more appropriate by their appearance than great extent . Their naked summits are pointed and jagged , and ...
... northward , and to which a French naturalist has given the name of the Back - bone of the Earth ; a name , however , that is much more appropriate by their appearance than great extent . Their naked summits are pointed and jagged , and ...
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abundance animal antelope appeared banks beautiful berg birds Bosjesmans called Camdeboo Cape Cape Town cattle chain of mountains coast colonists colony colour consisting covered deep desert distance district Drosdy Dutch eastward False Bay farmers feet Fish river five four gemsbok Graaff Reynet grass ground habitation hartebeests height hills horde horns horses Hottentots hout hundred inches inhabitants journey Kaffers Karroo kind kloof kraal landrost larvæ length miles mimosas moun mouth naked Namaaqua nature nest night northward Orange river oxen party passed peasantry plains plants quantity rixdollars rock Saldanha bay salt sand sand-stone sandy scarcely Sea-Cow seemed sheep shrubbery side skin Sneuwberg sort south-east Southern Africa species spring springbok steenbok stone summit Sunday river surface Table Bay Table Mountain tail tains tentot thick tion traveller trees tribe valley waggons whole wild winds wood