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Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 20 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe; Africa, Vol; I
Africa, that vast peninsula, the coasts of which have been circumnavigated by the ships of Europe for more than three centuries, still presents to the eye of science, as regards its interior recesses, a blank in geography, - a physical, and not less a moral problem, -a dark and bewildering mystery. The spirit of enterprise has opened the way for civilization through the primeval forests of the American continent, has traversed the boundless steppes of the South, and planted cities in the heart of the Andes. But the rivers of Africa have hitherto afforded no inlet to its central regions; and the fiery deserts which extend from Egypt to the Atlantic, have proved a barrier against the march of conquest or of civilization, more impassable than the frozen wilds of Siberia or the Himalaya itself.
The inhospitable coasts, the arid surface, and deadly climate of the greater part of the African countries, account in some degree, though not alto.
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