Africa and its inhabitants . archipelago is disposed in irregular groups, forming a large curve of some300 miles, with its convex side turned towards the African mainland. This curvebegins in the north-west with Santo-Antam, which is the second lai-gest member ofthe archipelago. It is continued south-eastwards by Sam-Vicente (Saint Vincent), CAPE VEED ISLANDS. 83 Santa-Luzia, Ilhco Branco, Ilhco Hazo, Sum-Nicolau, wliose lulls or mountaiiis allrun in a direct line, thus constituting quite » separate group, wliich from a distancelooks like a single island indented with deep inlets. Farther east
Africa and its inhabitants . archipelago is disposed in irregular groups, forming a large curve of some300 miles, with its convex side turned towards the African mainland. This curvebegins in the north-west with Santo-Antam, which is the second lai-gest member ofthe archipelago. It is continued south-eastwards by Sam-Vicente (Saint Vincent), CAPE VEED ISLANDS. 83 Santa-Luzia, Ilhco Branco, Ilhco Hazo, Sum-Nicolau, wliose lulls or mountaiiis allrun in a direct line, thus constituting quite » separate group, wliich from a distancelooks like a single island indented with deep inlets. Farther east Salt and Boa-Vista, continued south-westwards by the Banli of Joam Lcltano, form a secondgroup at the eastern verge of the semicircle. Lastly the southern sectioncomprises Maio, »Sam-Thiago, Fogo, Brava, and a few islets. All the northernislands, including Salt and Boa-Vista, take the collective name of Barlovento,or Windward, the four others that of the Leeward Islands. Fig. 35.—Cai* Vbed Isuujiis. Scale 1; 3,040, 0 1(1 lUOFoot. Dcptlis. 6eo to 6,600Feet. 6,000 to 13,200Feet. — 00 Miles. 13,200 Feet andupwiirds. The Cape Vord archipelago seems to belong to an older geological epoch thanthe almost exclusively volcanic Canaries and Azores. All tho islands have nodoubt their craters and eruptive rocks, while Santo-Autam and Fogo consistexclusively of scorioo and lavas. But in the others arc also found crystallinerocks, granites, syenites, and foyaitc, so called from Mount Ioya in metamoi-phic marbles and sedimentary rocks also occur, and Maio is especiallyremarkable for the relative of its non-igneous formations, a fact whichcertainly favours tho theoiy of an Atlantic continent formerly occupying thesewaters. 84 WEST AFEICA. Tho archipelago also differs from the Canaries and Azores in Iho generallyquiescent state of its volcanic forces. • With the exception of Fogo, none of thecraters have been in eruption since the discovery, and earthquakes ar
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