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Masai-Nyika 



snow at the Equator ! Nowadays we are more exactly 

 intormecl about the "genesis" ot" these great volcanoes 

 IVotessor Hans IMe\er has done much 1)\- his wonderful 

 explorations to o|)en up the matter. It is chielly from his 

 works that we derive our inh)rmation as to the L^eolo^rical 

 conditions ot this district. 



The formation (jt the district is the outcome of volcanic 



A 'IVriCAI. KIT OK SUCCULENT VELT VEGETATION IN 'ITIE KAIiN'V 

 SEASON. C.lK.I/J.rM.I COIH/'XO/niiS IN THE lOKECROUNU 



causes, and my friend Merker justly observes that this 

 is peculiarly remarkable on Kilimanjaro, Meru, and OI 

 Doinyo I'Eng ai. In the neighbourhood of the last, which 

 is an active volcano, hill after hill is fountl between the 

 steep descent of the Mutic-k Plateau and the Gilei and 

 Timbati Moimtains. each of which has the remains of a 

 crater. The whole scenery is of the kind we are familiar 

 with in photographs of the moon. 



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