Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Neature's Parks in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Neature's Parks in Africa.

In central Africa are found districts which impress the beholder with the belief that the land of man has shaped their features, although there is now no population capable of producing such effects. These districts, near Lake Tanganyika, are called “park lands,’’ and their origin was recently explained before the Linnean Society in London by Mr. Moore, as being due to the spread of vegetation over a light surface soil gradually deposited above the salt steppes left by former lakes. In some places these districts are covered with natural plantations that have a “quite homelike look.”