Formation and General Features of Ruwenzori. 



The general direction is iiortli and sonth, and the shape is very 

 nearly that of a written G. The principal groups would 

 compose the main curve of the G, wliile one group only, 

 that farthest south, would represent tlie tail of tlie letter. 



The range consists of six mountains, i.e., groups of peaks 

 with iflaciers, divided from one another hv cols without snow, 

 and therefore quite clearly distinct from one anotlier. The 

 area actually covered l)y glaciers is a little more than seven 

 miles lono- in a straio'ht line from south to north, and about 

 fom- miles wide fi-om east to west. The lengtli of the watershed 

 ridge, including all the groups, that is to say, tlie entire snowy 

 range, is alxnit 11 miles long. 



Tlie chain begins in the north with two groups, two parallel 

 snow rido;es runnino^ nearly due north and south. The eastern- 

 most of these was named by the Duke Mt. Gessi, in memory 

 of the Italian explorer who w^as the first to circumnavigate 

 Lake Albert. The western group was named Mt. Emin, after 

 p]min Pasha, who traversed the Sendiki Valley for the first 

 time \\'\t\\ Stanley. 



Mt. Emin joins Mt. Speke, which bears the name of the 

 first discoverer of the sources of the Nile in Lake Victoria. 

 After Mt. Speke the chain turns westward, rises to the highest 

 group, rightly called Mt. Stanley, and sweeps around in an 

 eastward curve to tlie group which bears the name of Baker, 

 the discoverer of Lake Albert, Avho had the first glimpse of 

 the mountain ranges of Ruwenzori. 



Last of all, the group to the south of Mt. Baker, which 

 runs from north-east to south-west, had been called by H.R.H. 

 Mt. Thomson, in memory of J. Thomson, whose work in Nigeria 

 is well known. But after his return to Europe the Duke was 

 forced to yield to the proposal of the English Geographical 



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