The Wonders Of Nature And Art Being An Account Of Whatever Is Most Curious And Remarkable Throughout The World The Whole Collected From The Writings Of The Best Historians The Second Edition Of 6 Volume 6

Author : John Poundly
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282056582
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Wonders of Nature and Art, Vol. 5 written by John Poundly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wonders of Nature and Art, Vol. 5: Being an Account of Whatever Is Most Curious and Remarkable Throughout the World; Whether Relating to Its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Volcanoes, Cataracts, Hot and Cold Springs, and Other Parts of Natural History Foil bf Tunis is generally fruitful towards the'wefi, but very poor'towards the eafi for want 'of, water; and that part oftripoli contiguous to Tunis is tolerably fertile. Algiers is very mountainous to wards the Mediterranean; but both the hills and vallies, where they are cultivated, abound in corn, dates, almonds, olives, figs, grapes, and other fruits. The country offez and Morocco is finely diverfified with mountains and vaft extended plains, moii of them fufiiciently fruitful, and pretty well inhabited; though in many parts, as well as the reft of Barbary, it is dry, fandy, and barren. Most of this large country, now called Bari bary, was famous in the times of the ancient Ro mans, againft whom the Carthaginians maintain: cd three bloody wars, 'the fecond of which had almoi't put an end to the'roman power and glory, as the third did to that of Carthage, which they took and burnt'to the ground. 1nor, did the Ro mans reit contented with having'deftroyed that rival city, and brought the Carthaginians under their yoke; but they extended their conquefls on. All fides, reduced Numidia and it's king Jugu'rtha, whofe ancefiors had (0 long reigned there; and after him the brave Juba, king of Mauritania. Thus not only all the coafi of Africa on the Me diterranean, but the inland part as far as the de fert, became fubjefi to the Roman yoke, and made mew provmces of their vaf't empire. In this con dition it continued, during the reigns of feveral emperors, till, ' Chrifiianity having taken root in the country, it became as eminent for men of dearning and piety, as it is at prefent for a race of cruel p'underers and pirates, enemies to the Chrif tian name - But we mufi not enter into the hif'tory 'oi Barbary, that being foreign to our defign, which -is to furvey it's, natural and artificial rarities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.