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Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Chambliss, J. E
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard bros. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ans and their wars with the gods; Cybelewith her doting love for Atvs and frantic <mef for his fate.And there were placed the hideous Gorgons, and the serpentshissing in the hair of Medusa. And thence came the stories ofthose dreadful Amazons, gallant viragoes, who ravaged allthe region and carried victorious arms, according to the historian,into Syria and Asia Minor. But mingled with so much fable the ancient writers had alsosome just conceptions of this region, and many things mentionedby Herodotus, Diodorus, and particularly by Strabo, who wroteafter the Roman sway wras fully established over Africa, indicatethat greatest care was used in treasuring the scraps of knowledgewhich floated up out of the deeper wilderness beyond. Yet thatwilderness kept its secrets so jealously that the diligence ofhistorians and the eagerness of explorers and the power of armieswere equally ineffectual in extending the range of precise knowl-edge beyond the narrow confines on the north and a limited
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EGYPTIAN ARCHWAY. SARACEN CONQUEST. 27 extent of western coast. The light struggled to penetrate thegloom, its blunted rays rested against an opacity, and rose intowering brilliancy, and stood a while flashing like a resistedsun, then paled and quivered and fell, and left the continent aheritage of darkness to the future. When the Saracen swTay swept across from Asia, in whosesocial system such marvellous changes had been wrought, andestablished itself among the splendid relics and smoldering firesso readily surrendered by the effeminate descendants of theGreeks and Romans, an auspicious day seemed to be dawningon the continent, the arts and sciences were revived on that con-secrated soil. Even remote Mauritania, which seemed doomedto be forever the inheritance of a barbarous and nomadic race,was converted into a civilized empire, and its capital, Fez, bo-came a distinguished school of learning. They introduced thecamel from the sandy wastes of Arabia. Paths were openedthrough wilds w

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