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Administration. .Su}iposing these steps had not been taken, however, and 

 the sudd had been allowed to accumulate unchecked? Would this in time 

 have diverted the main channel of the Nile bv the creation of a dam? 

 The ^Mountain Nile could not have wandered far to the east or west of 

 its present course. Perhaps after a centurv of sudd, which might have 

 created a marshy lake in the Nile Province of Uganda, the pent-up water 

 would have broken the dam and flooded the low-lying region between 

 Fashoda and the Eahr-al-fihazal, whicli was evidently once a huge northern 

 prototype of the Victoria Nyanza, where the Nile waters were for some 

 time stored before thev carved a wav through the Nubian Desert. 



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