Identifier: africa00johnrich (find matches)
Title: Africa
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel Africa -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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elow theequator. A certain grandeur is also doubtless presentedby the Mauritanian mountain system, while some iso-lated peaks towards the Eed Sea and at the sourcesof the Niger and Orange rivers attain respectable eleva-tions. But on the whole in this vast continent, nearlytwo thirds the size of Asia, by far the most prominentfeature is a moderately elevated table-land, and eventhe mountain ranges themselves by which it is brokenpresent as a rule everywhere the same uniform appearanceof sheer walls, with truncated summits, as follows fromthe nature of the sandstone of which tins continent ismainly composed. This monotony of its general outlines is of course trueonly of its great geographical features, and not of parti-cular regions. Here we find tracts of tropical vegetationand luxuriance succeeded by wildernesses and barrenwastes, hilly landscapes of varied beauty interchangingwith uniform table-lands, and now and then mountaingroups rivalling the sublimest aspects of Alpine scenery.
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