Title: Tables for the determination of Rock-forming Minerals ... Translated from the Russian by J. W. Gregory, ... With a chapter on the petrological microscope by ... G. A. J. Cole.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting geological features of the natural world. Also contained are textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Levinson-lessing, Frants Yulievich; Gregory, John Walter.; 1893. 55 p.; 8 . 7109.f.15.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II TO BARINGO AND MOUNT KENYA " Let it be virtuous to be obstinate." Coriolanus, v. 3. CHAPTER IV AT MOMBASA?A SECOND START " Kongowea ya mvumo, maangavu maji male Haitoi lililomo. Gongwa isingenyemele Msiotambua ndumo na utambaji wa kale." Verses of Muyaha on Mombasa, collected ky Rev. W. E. Taylor. (Mombasa roars like the wind through the fan-palm, Surf breaks o'er its reefs in calm as at spring tide; It ever is sending forth, yet ne'er has it fail'd, Think not 'twill be peaceful as you hear not its seething, For you know not its war-cries, nor its story of old.) THE town of Mombasa is situated on an island, which, owing to the healthiness of its climate, the fertility of the neighbouring country, the convenience of its harbours, and the strength of its position, has exercised an influence on East African history out of all proportion to its size. The town stands on the edge of a cliff on the northern shore; to the east stretches a plateau of coral rock, healthy and dry, and open to the bracing breezes from the sea. To the west the country is richly wooded and fertile, but in places swampy and malarious, for the red sands of which it is composed yield a soil very different from that formed from the coral rock. To the north and south of the island are the harbours of Mombasa and Kilindini, which, with the exception only of Delagoa Bay, are admittedly the finest on the eastern coast of Africa. A shallow creek, which can be forded at low tide, separates the island from a wide tract of rich food-bearing country, which now, as at the visit of Ibn Batuta in the fourteenth century, forms the granary for the inhabitants of the island. With all these advantages, it is not surprising thatMombasa has long been recognised as occupying one of the most important...

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