...geographical features were generally depicted in the manner described by Swift— " So Geographers in Afrio Maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants instead of towns." The name of Monomotapa (which means a place from which something valuable is derived),...

...explorers across vast regions of that terra incognita, of which Dean Swift wrote in the last century — " Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want uf towns." Nor was the accusation wholly unfounded. The...

...explorers across vast regions of that terra incognita of which Dean Swift wrote in the last century— " Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Nor was the accusation wholly unfounded. The...

...discovered, though some may easily be conjectured. I N his " Rhapsody on Poetry " Swift declares that Geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. If the rate of destruction of large game in Africa is long maintained, an illustration of this kind...

...moorland of a different parish ; So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds; So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants, for want of towns. But though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts...

...your gentleness shall foree More than your foree mo've us to gentleness. Sh. As YL n.7. GEOGRAPHY. So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs GEOLOGY. And in that rock are shapes of shells, and forms Of ereatures in old worlds, of nameless worms,...

...localized a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. The witty Dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of...

...localized a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs , Place elephants for want of towns. The witty Dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of...

...localized a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. The witty Dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of...

...age of desiring to throw on the devil's back — an unnecessary load, certainly, since such * [" So geographers in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs, Place elephants for want of towns. " SWIFT, On Poetry.] things do not exist, and it is therefore in vain to seek to account for them....