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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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EQUATORIAL LANDSCAPE.—River View garded as the boundary of the regionbefore us, but recently several newstates north of that line and upon ithave been organized out of what washitherto merely Sudanese territory. Within the limits of this country, bc-PrincipaiSudan- tween the equator and the ese states deter- borders ()f the Sahara, CX-mined by ethnic iines- ist many of the principal states and cities of Central Africa—Bam- maining important southern state ofthe Sudan is Adamawa. These severalstates, or kingdoms, have been con-structed on ethnic principles, each ofthem representing a division of thecentral Nigritian populations. Norshould we fail to remind the reader thataround from the north and west anethnic line has extended into theseregions representing the Arabian, the
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CENTRAL AFRICAN LANDSCAPE.—A Forest Storm.—Drawn by Riou, from a description and photograph. 620 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. ttires of the Su.dan; interiorrivers. Moorish, and the Berber stocks of man-kind interfused with the Blacks. It is hardly needed that Ave shouldhere enter extensively into a descriptionPhysical fea- of the physical characterof the countries beforeus. On the south theSahara rises, toward the tenth parallelof north latitude, into a great plateauextending across the continent. Thisascends to the east, and reaches its climaxin the mountains of Abyssinia. Thewestern edge of this table-land is lowerthan the east, but is sufficiently elevatedto turn many of the waters away fromthe Atlantic. Other interior streams aregathered into such rivers as the Nitrer,and breaking through the barriers of theplateau make their way to the sea. The general elevation of the interiorSudan ranges from three thousand tofour thousand feet above the Atlanticlevel. There are, however, many v

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