Africa (The Equator

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• Africa

• (The Equator—on it—in Africa the Guineas, Ethiopia—Zanguebar—Liberia only a little north—the Gaboon coast
• ^{the ^high long ranged linked ridged interminable ridged} Mountains of the Moon, just north of the Equator, and running from east and west—2000 miles 3 miles high
• Capes,
  • Cape Verde, the westernmost cape of the continent of Africa, on the coast of Senegambia not far north of Liberia
  • Cape of Good Hope, southern extremity
  • Cape Guardafui, eastern, lat. 10 north, point dividing the Indian ocean from the Red sea.
  • Cape Bon, northernmost, (coast of Tunis) in the Mediterranean
  • Cape Bajadore, on the desert, western extremity.
• Isthmus of Suez
• Seas
  • —the Red sea
  • —The ^^{good‑breathed} ^^aired ^^{fresh‑sunned} Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands
  • —Gulf of Guinea
• Straits of Gibraltar
• ^small Islands off the western coast, and large islands ^^{(Madagascars)} off the eastern coast.
• Mountains
  • —Mts of the Moon—
  • Snow Mts, southern part Africa, in Cape Colony.
  • Red Mts Madagascar

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• Africa

• Cape of Good Hope (8550 miles from New York

• • Rivers—in Africa

  • ^^{the Niger 2300 miles}
  • the Congo, (1000 miles or more, emptying into the Atlantic through Lower Guinea
  • The Nile The ^white black ^black and venerable ^^vast mother, the Nile,
  • ^{White River, away down in Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile}
  • Senegal, 900 miles, emptying into the Atlantic through Senegambia
  • —Orange River, (Cape Colony)
• People,
  • Caffres, southern extremity of Africa— of Caffaria—
  • M Nubians, below Egypt, (the Nile runs through it—
  • Liberians, ("free Liberians") the new colony—only a little north of the equator
  • Fezzanese, of Fezzan a province northern part of Africa, a little from the Mediterranean.—
  • Ashantees, in Guinea just north of the equator, west side
  • Boo^ushuanas of South Africa, probably the same as Hottentots
  • Foulahs (in Senegambia, west coast, 10th deg lati
  • Berbers, of Berbera, (a city same name,) province ^^close on the eEquator, eastern shore of Africa
  • Abyssinians, ^^{a large fine formed race,} of Abyssinia, black, athletic, fine heads, (City Gondar) Abyssinia a province west coast of Africa, f bordering partly on the Red Sea, partly on the Indian Ocean
  • Barcanese, of Barca on the Mediterranean,
  • Soudanese, 7,000,000 of Soudan
  • Ethiopians, ^quite entirely inland on and mostly below the equator—a country of & doubtless of hot‑breathed winds ^airs and exhalations cities, ignorance, enti altogether unenlightened and unexplored
  • Fellahtas, on the Niger river, in Soudan 10 deg north equator

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