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How could the star of day have shone amidst the heavens, If the moon of thy countenance had not concealed Its splendour beneath the cloud of a veil? Oh! banish me not from thy s...
1. Chapter 1Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 13935-h.htm or 13935-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/3/9/3...
3. Chapter 3Because, in proportion as the arc described is more extended, the steeper are its beginning and ending; and the more rapidly, therefore, the pendulum falls down at first, sweeps...
4. Chapter 4"We have the gratification to state, that the great question respecting the course of the Niger, which has puzzled geography and literature for many centuries, has at last been...