 ... verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet, and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen or twenty yards....  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 443edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Geography - 1912 - 656 pages
...suddenly compressed into a space of 15 or 20 yards. The entire Falls is simply a crack made in a hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the Zambesi, and then prolonged from the left bank through 30 or 40 miles of hills. The walls of this gigantic crack are perpendicular and composed of... | |
 | J. E. Chambliss - Africa, Central - 1875 - 812 pages
...a space of fifteen or twenty yards. The entire falls are simply a erack made in hard basaltic rooky from the right to the left bank of the Zambesi, and...bank away through thirty or forty miles of hills. In looking clown into the fissure on the right of the island one sees nothing but a dense white cloud,... | |
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