 | Bela Bates Edwards - Gazetteers - 1832 - 510 pages
...Senegal, Gambia, Congo, iOrange, &c. To the naturalist Africa is a wonderful country. It can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as all America. The population of Africa is probably between 100 and 110 millions. The interior of the country must... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 496 pages
...riches of the organic world, and the number of giant tbrms of animals and plants. It can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as all America. It excels Asia in the size of its colossal river-horse (hippopotamus), gigantic giraffe, und large... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Geography - 1836 - 286 pages
...&ize 1 1C09. LION, ZEBRA, CAMELEOPAi1D, HIPPOPOTAMUS, HYENA, AND OSTRICH. 1611. Africa can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as a!l America. It excels Asia in the size of its colossal river-horse, the hippopotamus, irs giraffe,... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Geography - 1839 - 278 pages
...of the globe. LION, ZEBRA, CAMELEOPARD, HIPPOPOTAMUS, HYENA, AND OSTRICH. 1611. Africa can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as all America. It excels Asia in the size of its colossal river-horse, the hippopotamus, its giraffe, antelopes, and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 956 pages
...organic world, and the number of giant forms of animals and plants. It cun enumerate five Unir- ns many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as all America. It excels Asia in the size of its colossal river-horse (hippopotamus), gigantic giraffe, and large... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 924 pages
...riches of the organic world, and the number of giant forms of animals and plants. It can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as all America. It excels Asia in the size of its colossal river-horse (hippopotamus), gigantic giraffe, and large... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Geography - 1849 - 334 pages
...refreshing, and the most wholesome. The animal kingdom presents still greater variety. Africa can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia,...the elephant, rhinoceros, zebra, panther, leopard, hycena, jackal, wolf. But the most beneficent gift of nature to the African is the camel, the constitution.... | |
 | Pictorial cabinet - 1878 - 574 pages
...hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds. LIFE IN £OUTH AfF(ICAI ATURALISTS say that Africa can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as America. The most colossal of land animals are the denizens of her recesses. Her upland pastures and... | |
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It can enumerate five times as many species of quadrupeds as Asia, and three times as many as all America. It excels Asia in the size of its colossal river-horse (hippopotamus), gigantic giraffe, and large antelopes and apes. 