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serenity, and neither the strength nor composure of his mind 

 seemed to be abated. This was on the 21st August 1841. The 

 A^enerable Archbishop of Toulouse administered to him, in 

 person, the consolations of religion : he died with the tran- 

 quillity of a good man, with the satisfaction of one who, look- 

 ing before him, saw a better future opened up to his view, 

 and looking backwards on what good he had been privileged 

 to perform on some, and the works he had left behind him, 

 might exclaim with the great poet of old, — Non omnis moriar. 



On the Sources of the Nile in the Mountains of the Moon. By 

 Charles T. Beke, Ph. D., F.S.A., &c.* (With a Plate.) 

 Communicated by the Author. 



In my Essay on the Nile and its Tributaries, read before 

 the Royal Geogi'aphical Society of London, on the 28th of 

 December 1846, and the 11th of January 1847, and printed 

 in the seventeenth volume of that Society's Journal (p. 1, 

 et seq), evidence was adduced to prove that the Bahr el 

 Abyad or White River, the direct stream of the Nile, has its 

 principal sources in the country of Mono-Moezi ; the approxi- 

 mate position of which country was shown to be between the 

 29th and 34th meridians of east longitude, and its northern 

 limits to extend to the third, or, pei'haps, the second parallel 

 of south latitude. 



It was at the same time explained that the name Mono- 

 Moezi is a compound word, significant in many of the lan- 

 guages of the Kaffir class, which are spoken throughout the 

 entire continent of Africa south of the Equator, as far as 

 the limits of the Hottentots. t The first component of this 



• Head before the Section of Geology and Physical Geography of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Meeting at Swansea, on the 

 15th August 1848. 



t See Dr Latham's Report on the Languages of Africa, in the Report of the 

 Uritith Atsociativn for the Advancement of Hcience, for 1847, p. 189, et seq, 

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