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Excerpt from Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 8: July to January, 1857
This geographical monotony strikes us, in like manner, in the interior. Europe has a number of varied and in dependent districts, watered each by its own fertile river, and fenced by its lofty mountain-ranges; Africa shows, as far as we know, but a vast table-land in the south, and an immense, deep sunk desert in the north. Three times as large as the Mediterranean, the latter surpasses all other plains u on earth - for even the great valley Of t In Mississippi, and the fearful steppes of Siberia, can bear no comparison. Hence, Schouw compares Africa to a simple pyramid, rising with stately but graceless proportions into the burning sky, whilst Europe suggests to him the Gothic cathedral, with its countless towers and turrets. Into the Mediterranean there flows. Moreover, but a sin is mighty river the old, venerable N' e; and as he hides his last days in sand and slime, refusing to bear proud vessels from the great inland ocean to his silent waters above, so the early days, also, and the cradle oi that wondrous patriarch of rivers, have remained a mystery, even to this da The Niger has been known to us on y for some twenty years; and here, also, a portion of its course is yet unvisited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
