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THAT S IT : 



Of karroos Pringle has given a poetical 

 description : — 



" Afar in the desert I love to ride, 

 With the silent bush-boy alone by my side, 

 Away, away, from the dwellings of men, 

 By the antelope's haunt, and the Ivffalo's 

 glen ; 



By valleys remote, where the owrebi plays, 

 Where the gnoo, the iassaybe, and hartebeest 



graze, [cline 

 And the eland and gemsbolc unnurtured re- 

 By skirts of gray forests o'erhung with wild 



vine ; 



Where the elephant browses at peace in his 



wood, 



And the river-horse gambols un scared in the 

 flood, 



And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will 

 In the pool where the wild ass is drinking his 

 fill. [cry 

 O'er the brown karroo, where the bleating 

 Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively ; 

 W here the zebra wantonly tosses his mane, 

 And he scours with his troop o'er the deso- 

 late plain ; 



And the stately koodoo exultingly bounds, 

 Undisturbed by the bay of the hunter's 

 hounds." 



The Tarai is a plain wooded 

 country in India, bounded by a 

 swampy tract ; also the abode of 

 numberless wild animals. Jungles 

 are also woods characteristic of 

 India, 7, and infested by the wild 



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wards the Ural Mountains, pre- 

 senting tracts of heath, sand, and 

 open pasture. From London to 

 Moscow the land is generally 

 level, and has been regarded by 

 geographers as one vast plain. 



Land forming a hollow between 

 hills, or surrounded by elevated 

 lands, is a valley or dale, 8 ; fields 

 in low situations are meadows, 9, 



"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not 

 want. He maketh me to he down in green 

 pastures : He leadeth me beside the still 

 waters." 



and as they give food to flocks 

 and herds, are called also pas- 

 tures, 10. 



A sudden rising of the land, 

 on the margin of the sea, forms 



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beasts native to its soil. The 

 Great Plain of Europe extends 

 from the German Sea through a cliff, 11. A sudden descent of 

 Prussia, Poland, and Bussia, to- land, in an inland situation com- 



