 | Joseph Thomson - 1887 - 430 sivua
...Africa, which extends in a narrow strip continuously from near the Equator to the Cape. These here gave place to metamorphic rocks which bulk so largely...and bushes ; for they are almost totally destitute of tender, waving branch or quivering leaf. No pliant twig or graceful foliage responds to the pleasing... | |
 | Edwin Collas Dawson - 1887 - 526 sivua
...obtained. After this an abrupt change takes place in the features of the landscape. Mr. Thomson says : " The agreeable alternation of ridge and hollow is exchanged...is taken by what may be called a skeleton forest." Such trees as there are, are almost wholly leafless ; stern, grey, and shadeless, they present rigid... | |
 | Edwin Collas Dawson - 1887 - 522 sivua
...obtained. After this an abrupt change takes place in the features of the landscape. Mr. Thomson says : " The agreeable alternation of ridge and hollow is exchanged...the open forest, disappear, and their place is taken hy what may be called a skeleton forest." Such trees as there are are almost wholly leafless ; stern,... | |
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The agreeable alternation of ridge and hollow is exchanged for an apparently dead level plain, parched and waterless as if no drop of life-giving rain refreshed the iron-bound soil. The dense jungle, the grassy glades, the open forest disappear, and their... 