African Sunlight and the Welsh Language
STANLEY says that African sunlight, with all its great heat, appeared to him as a superior moonlight, judging from its effects on scenery. He attributes the apparent solemnity of the “solemn-looking hills,” of which he so often speaks, to this peculiar sunshine. “It deepens the shadows and darkens the dark green foliage of the forest, while it imparts a wan appearance or a cold reflection of light to naked slopes and woodless top hills. Its effect is a chill austerity, an indescribable solemnity, a repelling unsociability.” It being asserted that the Welsh will be a dead language within twenty-five years, the Macon (Ga.) Messenger is led to remark that “it will then be placed in the curriculum of American colleges.”