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natives described the melting of the white material before the fire, 

 &c., &c. Krapf, who also saw the snow, speaks of the river issuing 

 from it as running to the eastward : he also gives the report of a 

 large river lying far to the N. W. of the mountain, and presumed to 

 be the Nile. 



Turning to the White Nile, we have the accounts of the two 

 Egyptian expeditions, the first of which appears to Mr. Macqueen 

 to give the most reliable latitudes : it reached 3^* 30' N. lat. and 

 31° E. long, from Greenwich, where it was stopped for want of water 

 on Jan. 26, 1840. At that time the breadth was 1370 feet, and the 

 greatest depth from 3 feet to 6 feet. Here the country had begun to 

 be rocky, and the vegetation to be European in its character. Werne's 

 information of the second Egyptian expedition is sufficiently cor- 

 roborative. Dr. Knoblicher finds the river at Loquek to be 650 

 feet broad in the dry season, and from 5 to 8 feet deep. From 

 Loquek to the farthest known point, that of Don Angelo is the best 

 account : he was there in 1852. He describes the cataract of Garbo 

 in presumably N. lat. 2° 40'. Sixty miles beyond this is Eobingo, 

 and then Lokoya, where an affluent runs in from the east. Beyond 

 Lokoya the White Nile is a small rocky river. 



The reports collected by travellers, such as Bruce and Harris, 

 are then discussed, and afterwards those of Ptolemy. The paper 

 concludes with the following account of the recent statements of 

 M. Leon : — 



*' Some very curious and important information connected with the 

 countries near the sources of the Nile has just been received from a 

 French missionary (Pere B. P. Leon), dated at Zanzibar, August, 

 last year. This missionary had been in Enerea. He states that 

 there is a frequented road from Brava on the sea-coast to Kaffa, the 

 journey occupying 24 days. This, by mature estimation, is about 

 15 miles daily, but they never actually travel more than 10 miles 

 on an average. The estimated distance is 360 geographical miles, 

 which is tolerably accurate. Twelve days' journey south of Kaffa, 

 he states, dwell a people called Amara, nearly white : they have 

 written books, and a language different from either the Ethiopic or 

 Arabic. They build houses and villages, and cultivate the ground. 

 They are rightly conjectured to be the remains of Christian nations 

 which in early times spread far to the south of Abyssinia, till they 

 were overrun, massacred or scattered, by the savage Galla. It has 

 been repeatedly asserted that such remnants of Eastern Christian 

 Churches were scattered over this portion of Africa. Four days' 

 journey from the Amara M. Leon says there is a lake, from which 

 an affluent of the "White Nile is seen to flow. M. Leon supposes 



