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Excerpt from Studies in North Africa A land of sand and ruin and gold. Thus Swinburne describes North Africa. Sand indeed there is - sand that seems to stretch out into infinity; ruins, too, the ruins of three great civilisations which have passed away; gold also though of no material wealth; rather it is the glory of the golden haze over the desert, and the yellow sand gleaming in the sunshine. The writer has described no place which he did not visit during a protracted sojourn in North Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.