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CHAP. XIV. 



Dcfcrlption of the Sources of the Nile — OfGeefh — Accounts of its feve~ 

 ral Cataracls — Courfe from its Rife to the Mediterranean. 



I HOPE that what I have now faid will be thought fuffi- 

 cient to convince all impartial readers, that thefe cele- 

 brated fources have, as it were, by a fatality, remained to 

 our days as unknown as they were to antiquity, no 

 good or genuine voucher having yet been produced ca- 

 pable of proving that they were before difcovered, or 

 feen "by the curious eye of any traveller, from earliefl 

 ages to this day ; and it is with confidence I propofe to my 

 reader, that he will confider me as flill Handing at thefe foun- 

 tains, and patiently hear from me the recital of the origin, 

 courfe, names, and circumftances of this the moft famous 

 river in the world, which he will in vain feek from books, 

 or from any other human authority whatever, and which, 

 by the care and attention I have paid to the fubjecl, will, 

 I hope, be found fatisfactory here :— 



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