 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 374 pàgines
...Elephants in lieu of towns. 37 older writers, and which is satirized in the wellknown lines of Swift — " So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er inhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Even in the days of Plutarch a kindred device... | |
 | John Wesley Edward Bowen - 1896 - 304 pàgines
...describe so very inaccurately the results of much of the explorations down to hisday when he said: " So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Only half a century ago the map of Central Africa was a blank from ten degrees north latitude to the... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1896 - 572 pàgines
...and unapproachable bogs." This remark moved Dean Swift, the author of " Gulliver's Travels," to say : So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. (To be ctmtintud.) THE Bunnies are a feeble folk Whose weakness is their strength. To shun a gun a... | |
 | John Wesley Edward Bowen - 1896 - 306 pàgines
...inaccurately the results of much of the explorations down to hisday when he said: " So geographers in Afrlc maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." since we obtained any certain knowledge of those great lakes which from an early period were rumored... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 318 pàgines
...and unapproachable bogs." This remark moved Dean Swift, the author of " Gulliver's Travels," to say : So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures...And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want oi towns. CHAPTER VII. THE SEA OF SAND AND ITS MARVELS — THE FABLED SALAMANDER AND ITS TRUE STORY—... | |
 | Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - 1988 - 310 pàgines
...'Decorative maps', The Studio, 128 (1944), pp. 161-9. 97 So Geographers in /4/r/c-Maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. Jonathan Swift, On poetry: a rhapsody 'Savage-Pictures', 'Elephants', and a 'want of Towns' (towns... | |
 | David Hatcher Childress - 1989 - 428 pàgines
...mystery. ZAMBIA AND MALAWI: THE BATMEN OF AFRICA So Geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage pictures nil their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs place elephants for want of towns. —Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) I arrived at Kpiri Mposhi, the end of the Chinese-built Tazara railway,... | |
 | George Cumberland - 1991 - 424 pàgines
...Country ... in the Years 1809 and 1 8 io (1814). 14 So Geographers in Afric-Maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. (Swift, "On Poetry: A Rhapsody," 11. 177—80) 15 WG Browne, Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria (1799);... | |
 | Marco Polo, Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier - 1993 - 788 pàgines
...story i — " So geogmphers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhahitahle downs Place elephants for want of towns." As regards the Christians of Samarkand who figure in the preceding story, we may note that the city had heen one of the Metropolitan Sees of the Nostorian Church... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1993 - 460 pàgines
...constructed by those writers on Africa as to justify the witty lines of Swift : — Geographers in Afrio'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... | |
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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. 
