 | William Leonard Hunt - 1886 - 552 pàgines
...unnaturally bare state— and to overlook the grass. Or was it the old storv of— Geographers on Afric's maps With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns 1 Every now and then we would ride up the highest sand-hills, with the double object of surprising... | |
 | 1886 - 450 pàgines
...by those writers on Africa as to justify the witty lines of Swift : — • Geographers in Afric's maps With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er...unhabitable downs. Place elephants for want of towns. But what physical glories, what mountains and lakes, and rivers, and what a wealth of population have... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1886 - 402 pàgines
...dire." The witty and eccentric Dean Swift, remarking on the custom of writers of his day, said : — " So geographers in Afric. maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And oVr inhabitable downs Place elephants, instead of towns." It is strange how long this ignorance both... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1887 - 382 pàgines
...as localised a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...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... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1922 - 1084 pàgines
...that I shall go my journey. I'll share my method with you. 'Tis neither new nor strange. Says Swift, " Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs ^ Place elephants for want of towns." Those were entertaining charts but no more enticing than our own. Critics, I know, would scoff at mere... | |
 | Edward Peter Mathers - 1888 - 454 pàgines
...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),... | |
 | Manchester Geographical Society - 1890 - 512 pàgines
...east, and west. The sketches on many of the maps remind one of Swift's verse, written in 1733 : — " So geographers in Afric maps, With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." The reverend poet had uo doubt seen some of the maps — still to be seen — which have sketches of... | |
 | 1892 - 672 pàgines
...In 1867 there were still large tracts of unknown regions. While the old maps of which Swift wrote, " So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants instead of towns," had been displaced by those much more accurate, there were still many lakes, rivers,... | |
 | 1895 - 768 pàgines
...? your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness. Sh. As YLli.7. GEOGRAPHY. So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. Swiff, Poetry, a Rhaptody GEOLOGY. And in that rock are shapes of shells, and forms Of creatures in... | |
 | 1882 - 900 pàgines
...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...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... | |
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So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 
