AND THE NILE 



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Administration. Siipposiiig these steps had not been taken, however, and 

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

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

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

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

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

 would have broken the dam and flooded tjie low-lving region between 

 Fashoda and the Bahr-al-(ihazal, which was evidentiv once a huge northern 

 prototype of tlie \'ictoria Nyanza, where the Nile waters were for some 

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



122. THE AMBATCH-TREE 



