" The most magnificent contribution of the present cen- 

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DR. EARTH'S 

 NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA. 



Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Being a 



Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of 



H.B.M's Government in the Years 1849-1855. .By HENRY 



BARTH, Ph.D., D.C.L., Fellow of the Royal Geographical and 



Asiatic Societies, &c., &c. Profusely and elegantly illustrated. 



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Dr. Earth's wonderful travels approach the Equator from the North as nearly 

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 which still remains open for exploration and research Vol. III., completing 

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The researches of Dr. Barth are of the highest interest. Few men have ex- 

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Your curiosity is awakened, step by step, as with diminished resources he 

 works his way through fanatical and rapacious tribes, ready in resources and 

 never desponding, and buoyed up by the unconquerable desire to surpass his 

 predecessors in the thoroughness and in the range of his discoveries. Albion. 



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