 | 1886 - 450 стор.
...by those writers on Africa as to justify the witty lines of Swift : — • Geographers in Afric's maps With savage pictures fill their gaps ; And o'er...unhabitable downs. Place elephants for want of towns. But what physical glories, what mountains and lakes, and rivers, and what a wealth of population have... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1887 - 382 стор.
...localised a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said, So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. The witty Dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1922 - 1084 стор.
...that I shall go my journey. I'll share my method with you. 'Tis neither new nor strange. Says Swift, " Geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs ^ Place elephants for want of towns." Those were entertaining charts but no more enticing than our own. Critics, I know, would scoff at mere... | |
 | Edward Peter Mathers - 1888 - 454 стор.
...geographical features were generally depicted in the manner described by Swift — So geographers in Afrio maps With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants instead of towns. The name of Monomotapa (which means a place from which something valuable is derived),... | |
 | Manchester Geographical Society - 1890 - 512 стор.
...and west. The sketches on many of the maps remind one of Swift's verse, written in 1733 : — " So geographers in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." The reverend poet had uo doubt seen some of the maps — still to be seen — which have sketches of... | |
 | 1892 - 672 стор.
...1867 there were still large tracts of unknown regions. While the old maps of which Swift wrote, " So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants instead of towns," had been displaced by those much more accurate, there were still many lakes, rivers,... | |
 | 1882 - 900 стор.
...localized a habitat. It was Swift who, remarking on the customs of geographers in his day, said : " So geographers in Afric maps "With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." The witty dean's lines show at least that the geographers did not mistake the wide distribution of... | |
 | 1895 - 768 стор.
...your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness. Sh. As YLli.7. GEOGRAPHY. So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. Swiff, Poetry, a Rhaptody GEOLOGY. And in that rock are shapes of shells, and forms Of creatures in... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 стор.
...in lieu of towns. 37 older writers, and which is satirized in the wellknown lines of Swift — " So geographers, in Afric maps, . With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er inhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Even in the days of Plutarch a kindred device... | |
 | John Wesley Edward Bowen - 1896 - 304 стор.
...describe so very inaccurately the results of much of the explorations down to hisday when he said: " So geographers in Afric maps With savage pictures fill...unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." Only half a century ago the map of Central Africa was a blank from ten degrees north latitude to the... | |
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So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 
