A Short History of Algiers: With a Concise View of the Origin of the Rupture Between Algiers and the United States; To Which Is Added a Copious ... M'shane, and Sundry Other American Captives - Hardcover

Duyckinck, Evert

9780656045556: A Short History of Algiers: With a Concise View of the Origin of the Rupture Between Algiers and the United States; To Which Is Added a Copious ... M'shane, and Sundry Other American Captives

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Excerpt from A Short History of Algiers: With a Concise View of the Origin of the Rupture Between Algiers and the United States; To Which Is Added a Copious Appendix, Containing Letters From Captains Penrose, M'shane, and Sundry Other American Captives

I aea They an: 16m in number. None of them has a long course, or even is navigable; atleast none of them is made use of1n navigation. It 13 howe ver likely that they might be made use of for this paw. Were the inhabitants (if a more intelhgeat and industrious charact er; for some of them are of a tolerable depth. Such is the gross ignorance of the natives in whatever concerns domestic improvement, that there is not a single Bridge over any of these rivers. When they are to be crossed, the traveller hath; sometimes er for several miles In; search of a ferry boats are nu known. If a heavy rain happens to fall, he 18 forced to wait, till the river returns to its usual sizer This country consists of eighteen pro Vinces. The clim lightfish The air is pure and serene. The soil is covered with almost a perpetual verdnre. Extreme heat 13 not common. This description applies to the lands on the sea coast for as we advance mto the mii becomes more parched Indeedsa considerable part of the back country is a savage desert! Abounding with lions, wigs, leopards, buil'aloes, wild boars, and parcupines.

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