 | W. F. W. Owen - Africa - 1833 - 306 pages
...almost an unvaried, low, marshy plain, irrigated by barred rivers, bounded by a line of sharppointcd coral masses, uncovered when the tide is out, and in two or three places a complete archipelago of rocky islets, assuming a variety of whimsical shapes, among which that of... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...Augustin'a to Boyauna Bay is almost an unvaried, low, marshy plain, irrigated by barred rivers, bounded by a line of sharp-pointed coral masses, uncovered when the tide is out, and in two or three places a complete archipelago of rocky islets, assuming a variety of whimsical shapes, among which that of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 610 pages
...Augustin's to Boyauna Bay is almost an unvaried, low, marshy plain, irrigated by barred rivers, bounded by a line of sharp-pointed coral masses, uncovered when the tide is out, and in two or three places a complete archipelago of rocky islets, assuming a variety of whimsical shapes, among which that of... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1834 - 508 pages
...Augustin's to Boyauna Bay is almost an unvaried, low, marshy plain, irrigated by barred rivers, bounded by a line of sharp-pointed coral masses, uncovered when the tide is out, and in two or three places a complete archipelago of rocky islets, assuming a variety of whimsical shapes, among which that of... | |
 | Thomas Boteler - Africa, East - 1835 - 510 pages
...alongside. These people stunned us by vociferating for presents and beseeching 106 COAST OF THE MAIN. us to anchor. Their principal demands were in behalf...the most predominant. The strand was always sandy, BARREN ISLANDS. 107 and the land was sometimes of the same nature, yet was always thickly covered with... | |
 | Alexander G. Findlay - Indian Ocean - 1866 - 1180 pages
...almost an unvaried low, marshy plain, irrigated by barred rivers, bounded by a line of sharp pointed coral masses, uncovered when the tide is out, and in two or three places a complete archipelago of rocky islets, assuming a variety of whimsical shapes. The shore is thickly... | |
 | Madagascar - 1885 - 572 pages
...western side of Madagascar] is almost an unvaried, low, marshy plain, irrigated by barred rivers, bounded by a line of sharp-pointed coral masses, uncovered when the tide is out, and in two or three places, a complete archipelago of rocky islets, assuming a variety of whimsical shapes, among which that of... | |
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... Mary, an extent of ten degrees of latitude, presents a long-continued rocky or sandy shore (with the exception of St. Augustin Bay), bound with reefs and islands of coral : — ' The coast from St. Augustin's to Boyauna Bay is almost an unvaried,... 