Africa and its inhabitants . T AFRICA. systematic exploration of tlie Atlantic, whicli constitutes their title to renownduring the age of the great nautical expeditious. On this occasion they sawnothing but the reefs of Formigas between San-Miguel and Santa-Maria; butGonralo Velho Cabral, returning to these waters next year, discovered Santa-Mariaitself, which Don Kenri presented to him as a fief. Twelve years afterwards helanded on San-!Miguel. the chief ;laud in the archipelago, which he also receivedin vassalage under the Portuguese crown. The eastern group of Cabrera, or LasCabras, ha
Africa and its inhabitants . T AFRICA. systematic exploration of tlie Atlantic, whicli constitutes their title to renownduring the age of the great nautical expeditious. On this occasion they sawnothing but the reefs of Formigas between San-Miguel and Santa-Maria; butGonralo Velho Cabral, returning to these waters next year, discovered Santa-Mariaitself, which Don Kenri presented to him as a fief. Twelve years afterwards helanded on San-!Miguel. the chief ;laud in the archipelago, which he also receivedin vassalage under the Portuguese crown. The eastern group of Cabrera, or LasCabras, had already formed part of geographical nomenclatuie, but another twentyyears passed before the last of the nine members of the group was finally sur-veyed. , Although scattered over a vast space, the islands have many features incommon. All are hilly and dominated by volcanic craters whence lava streamshave been discharged, and all terminate seawards in rugged masses of black scoria 10.— Axis of Tire Depths. 0 to 3,300 Feet. Feot and upwards. 4 Submaiine Volcanoes. presenting a forbidding aspect. With the exception of Santa-Maria, at the south-eastern extremity, which contains some limestone beds dating from the Mioceneperiod, all are composed exclusively of ashes, scorias, and lavas. Geographicallythey form three perfectly distinct groups, of which the easternmost is the laro-est,although comprising only the two islands of San-Miguel and Santa-ilaria, with thereefs of Formigas, which may be regarded as the crests of a submerged rocky central group consists of five members—Terceira, which has at times givenits name to the whole archipelago; Graciosa, San-Jorge, Pico, and Fayal. The » CLIMATE OF THE AZOEES. 25 » western group, least in extent, population and historical importance, comprisesonly the two remote islets of Flores and, Corvo, which are alone disposed in thedirection from north to south, all the others forming volcanic cha
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