Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-23

! AN UNKNOWN LAND. The English have recently
made settIeme-. Alden, the Red Sea. Hav-
ing once obtained foothold, they, English like be-
gan push abou. them, and of their first discov
cries was a river where marked upon any
chart, and upon this they steamed 300 miles without
| finding the least obstruction. Having new passed
round this continent let look up into tie interior.
For half century the English government have been
expendng lives and treasures in partial exploration.
They have found that the whole tract of country is
| one Of amazing fertility and beauty, Astounding in
gold and all surts Of tropical negotiations There are
hundreds of woods, invaluable for dying and archi-
tectura purposes, not found in other portions OF the
world.
| Through it for thousands of miles sweep river,
from three six miles lToad, with clear water and
| unsurpassed depth, flowing at the rate of two or
three miles hour without rock, shoa, snag to
intercept its navigation. Other rivers pour into this
their tributary waters of such volumes must have
required hundreds of miles To be collected, yet they
seem scarcely to enlarge it. This river pours into
| the Atlantic through one of the most magnificent
detas in the world, consisting perhaps of hundred
mouths, extending probably five hundred miles along
the coast, and mostly broad deep and navigabIe for
steamboats,. Upon this river are scattered cities,
some of which are estimated to contain million Of
inhabitants and the whole Country teens with a
dense populations.
Far the interior, to the very heart of the contin-
ent is nation in advanced state of civilization.
The grandeur and beauty of PORTIONS of the country
through which the Niger makes lis sweeping circui,
| are indescribable. In many places its banks rise
boldly Thousand feet, and thickly covered with
the richest vegetation of tropical chimes. But all
this vast and sublime country, this scope of rich fer
tty and romantic beauty, is apparently shut out for
ever from the world. He need not fear the incur
sions of the white man there; for this whole
lovely country moves one dread malaria and TO the
white man it is the valley of the shadow of DEATH
In expedition after expedition sent from the Eng
lish ports the island of Ascension, one in len
have returned aive-all have fallen victims TO the
seemlngl beautiful country.
! 1t seems impossible for an Engshman TO breathe
that air. So dreadful is it-so small the chance of
life, that criminals have been offered paruon con-
dition of volunteering in this service, terri5l
| than that of gathering the poison from the tabled
| Upas. This country, tempting il is, only be
penetrated at the risk of life, and il is melancholy
think that those who have given the meagre infor-
nation that have. do il at the sacrifice of their
! lives.
country, is published by Swiss officer in the service
| of the Egyptian government, who member of
an expedition fitted out by MeheInt Ali. He could
give but lille account OF the country, however, only
that they saw races of the most degraded negroes,
and fine specimens of humanity in other races.
One tribe averaged, both men and women, seYen feet
! in stature.
Our notice of The g Raleigh Editors - few weeks
ago has reused up some of the :. Subjects and
Holden returns the FIRE with interest; but our Haodes
shrinks from repeating what he says of u.s. OF course
We know he is IN earnest, and we thank him for his
Iproer to for and furnish US with documents
when run for Office.
Holden says Gales deserves better notice than
we gave him. for he is clever fellow al bottom
Wellswe never got to the bottom Of him, but as
Holden has, perfectly willing to take his word
/ torit. Therefore we write Gales down clever fell
i loW--at bottom.
German goes into an elaborate investigation of The
4 word dry, which he manages to make little dryer
than we thought il was. But German is clever
ttellow, top and bottom. MotsaEain B01,ler