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~10 'l'RAVELS ,IN AFRICA.continent put thought iuto action, and this vast chain is the mast ilQportant,just as it is the most conspicuous, of them aH. How much j$mankind indebted ~o the concussions ofthe globe ! A mountain in theselatitudes, in conformity with what the poet depicts, attracts and condensesthat humidity which else woilld he dispersedinefficiently, tofertilize these plains, which were it otherwise would be barren \vastes"ii.Viewed 50 far out to sea, what an important feature must this moun..tain have presented to the nautical people of thoseancient days~ whejlocal points, or the stars, were their best guides! Considering the weIlknowntendency of the traveHe... to detaih and the equal voracity ofthe hüm,an imagination te) receive, stories of the l11arvellous, no wonderif three..fourths of ancient fables are nauticalexaggetation, pef~oni'l.cation, and al1egory.shàre.No wonder if Atlas has contributed his ampleCape N um, so formidable to navigatorspossessedofmorepow..erf,d resourCfIS, mUst have been to the coasters of an(ûtmt daysan ob..ject to petrify the 'stoutest hearts."IlIa sub.hesperiisstantem T~tanl'/o.qohllll~l~SIn cautes Atlanta deditt.". . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ... . ..Finibus extremis Libyas, ubi fervida tellmAceîpit oceanum demisso sole calentemSquallebant latè Phorcynidos arva Medusre."'x How powerful must be, to th1$ tiffect, the stupehdous range whicnextènds from the Atlantic to theNile! (occupied thl'oughout by one and the same primitive people.) It is Hot alone in the torridlatitudes that man's gratitude tothe Power which guides these awful struggles is due. Tothemwe owe calcareous, carbonie, and rnetallic matter, which diffuse, with the progress ofthat population,which owes the extent of its range to their powerful aid, and spreads comfort:and plenty overso great a space of the globe, otherwise uninhabitable. Thus is INFINITE WISDOM ever extracting,otlt of immediate èvil, ultimate good l a proeésil towhichanomnipotent hand ia alonc ade€J.ùate•.tThc western point of Atlas is in latitude 29 J 25'. The..eastern.i§ at13all~rell. upon tlle.~ile.Here the 13reber or Troplodyte tract touche.s upon Egypt, and the people here,w~st ?f .. t~e up'percataract of Syene, are called by the Egyptians Bet'l}eri.-For etymological specUTa'tion,we finda lIIation (rom llie heai't Of Af.l'iêa namedDemooi't6iJ. :A:Ilseem(pf the (l'ace; dHam. (Ammon.